Dual Quaternion SE(3) Synchronization with Recovery Guarantees

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Jianing, Zhu, Linglingzhi, So, Anthony Man-Cho
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author Zhao, Jianing
Zhu, Linglingzhi
So, Anthony Man-Cho
author_facet Zhao, Jianing
Zhu, Linglingzhi
So, Anthony Man-Cho
contents Synchronization over the special Euclidean group SE(3) aims to recover absolute poses from noisy pairwise relative transformations and is a core primitive in robotics and 3D vision. Standard approaches often require multi-step heuristic procedures to recover valid poses, which are difficult to analyze and typically lack theoretical guarantees. This paper adopts a dual quaternion representation and formulates SE(3) synchronization directly over the unit dual quaternion. A two-stage algorithm is developed: A spectral initializer computed via the power method on a Hermitian dual quaternion measurement matrix, followed by a dual quaternion generalized power method (DQGPM) that enforces feasibility through per-iteration projection. The estimation error bounds are established for spectral estimators, and DQGPM is shown to admit a finite-iteration error bound and achieves linear error contraction up to an explicit noise-dependent threshold. Experiments on synthetic benchmarks and real-world multi-scan point-set registration demonstrate that the proposed pipeline improves both accuracy and efficiency over representative matrix-based methods.
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spellingShingle Dual Quaternion SE(3) Synchronization with Recovery Guarantees
Zhao, Jianing
Zhu, Linglingzhi
So, Anthony Man-Cho
Optimization and Control
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Signal Processing
Synchronization over the special Euclidean group SE(3) aims to recover absolute poses from noisy pairwise relative transformations and is a core primitive in robotics and 3D vision. Standard approaches often require multi-step heuristic procedures to recover valid poses, which are difficult to analyze and typically lack theoretical guarantees. This paper adopts a dual quaternion representation and formulates SE(3) synchronization directly over the unit dual quaternion. A two-stage algorithm is developed: A spectral initializer computed via the power method on a Hermitian dual quaternion measurement matrix, followed by a dual quaternion generalized power method (DQGPM) that enforces feasibility through per-iteration projection. The estimation error bounds are established for spectral estimators, and DQGPM is shown to admit a finite-iteration error bound and achieves linear error contraction up to an explicit noise-dependent threshold. Experiments on synthetic benchmarks and real-world multi-scan point-set registration demonstrate that the proposed pipeline improves both accuracy and efficiency over representative matrix-based methods.
title Dual Quaternion SE(3) Synchronization with Recovery Guarantees
topic Optimization and Control
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00324