When is one pinhole camera image equal to some other pinhole camera image?
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| author | Ottaviani, Giorgio Thomas, Rekha R. |
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| contents | Generically, one expects the images of two different point sets, in two different (projective) cameras, to be different. However, it can happen that the images are the same up to a projective transformation which is an instance of ill-posedness in computer vision. We prove that the images can become projectively equivalent only for point pairs with at most seven elements. In each case, we give explicit descriptions of the Zariski closure of the locus of camera centers which we call the centers-variety. To do this we use classical invariant theory and the geometry of moduli spaces of ordered points in the projective plane. The most involved case is that of seven points which uses a natural parametrization of the Goepel variety. |
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| spellingShingle | When is one pinhole camera image equal to some other pinhole camera image? Ottaviani, Giorgio Thomas, Rekha R. Algebraic Geometry 14N05, 14L30, 68T45 Generically, one expects the images of two different point sets, in two different (projective) cameras, to be different. However, it can happen that the images are the same up to a projective transformation which is an instance of ill-posedness in computer vision. We prove that the images can become projectively equivalent only for point pairs with at most seven elements. In each case, we give explicit descriptions of the Zariski closure of the locus of camera centers which we call the centers-variety. To do this we use classical invariant theory and the geometry of moduli spaces of ordered points in the projective plane. The most involved case is that of seven points which uses a natural parametrization of the Goepel variety. |
| title | When is one pinhole camera image equal to some other pinhole camera image? |
| topic | Algebraic Geometry 14N05, 14L30, 68T45 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14172 |