Globally Optimal Solution to the Generalized Relative Pose Estimation Problem using Affine Correspondences
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| author | Yu, Zhenbao Guan, Banglei Liang, Shunkun Liu, Zibin Shang, Yang Yu, Qifeng |
| author_facet | Yu, Zhenbao Guan, Banglei Liang, Shunkun Liu, Zibin Shang, Yang Yu, Qifeng |
| contents | Mobile devices equipped with a multi-camera system and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) are widely used nowadays, such as self-driving cars. The task of relative pose estimation using visual and inertial information has important applications in various fields. To improve the accuracy of relative pose estimation of multi-camera systems, we propose a globally optimal solver using affine correspondences to estimate the generalized relative pose with a known vertical direction. First, a cost function about the relative rotation angle is established after decoupling the rotation matrix and translation vector, which minimizes the algebraic error of geometric constraints from affine correspondences. Then, the global optimization problem is converted into two polynomials with two unknowns based on the characteristic equation and its first derivative is zero. Finally, the relative rotation angle can be solved using the polynomial eigenvalue solver, and the translation vector can be obtained from the eigenvector. Besides, a new linear solution is proposed when the relative rotation is small. The proposed solver is evaluated on synthetic data and real-world datasets. The experiment results demonstrate that our method outperforms comparable state-of-the-art methods in accuracy. |
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| spellingShingle | Globally Optimal Solution to the Generalized Relative Pose Estimation Problem using Affine Correspondences Yu, Zhenbao Guan, Banglei Liang, Shunkun Liu, Zibin Shang, Yang Yu, Qifeng Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Mobile devices equipped with a multi-camera system and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) are widely used nowadays, such as self-driving cars. The task of relative pose estimation using visual and inertial information has important applications in various fields. To improve the accuracy of relative pose estimation of multi-camera systems, we propose a globally optimal solver using affine correspondences to estimate the generalized relative pose with a known vertical direction. First, a cost function about the relative rotation angle is established after decoupling the rotation matrix and translation vector, which minimizes the algebraic error of geometric constraints from affine correspondences. Then, the global optimization problem is converted into two polynomials with two unknowns based on the characteristic equation and its first derivative is zero. Finally, the relative rotation angle can be solved using the polynomial eigenvalue solver, and the translation vector can be obtained from the eigenvector. Besides, a new linear solution is proposed when the relative rotation is small. The proposed solver is evaluated on synthetic data and real-world datasets. The experiment results demonstrate that our method outperforms comparable state-of-the-art methods in accuracy. |
| title | Globally Optimal Solution to the Generalized Relative Pose Estimation Problem using Affine Correspondences |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17188 |