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| author | Zhao, Ziyue Liu, Huikang Yue, Man-Chung |
| author_facet | Zhao, Ziyue Liu, Huikang Yue, Man-Chung |
| contents | A rigid motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$ consists of a proper rotation and a translation, and it can be represented as a matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{(d+1)\times (d+1)}$. The problem of rigid motion synchronization aims to estimate a collection of rigid motions $G^*_1, \dots, G^*_n$ from noisy observations of their comparisons ${G^*_i}^{-1} G^*_j$. Such problems naturally arise in diverse applications across signal processing, robotics, and computer vision, and have thus attracted intense research attention in recent years. Motivated by geometric considerations, this paper develops a novel spectral approach for rigid motion synchronization, called the anchored spectral estimator (ASE). Theoretically, we establish uniform estimation error bounds for the estimators produced by ASE. Empirically, we show that ASE outperforms the widely used two-stage approach, which first estimates the rotations and then the translations. Further numerical experiments on the multiple point-set registration problem are presented to demonstrate the superiority of ASE over state-of-the-art methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Anchored Spectral Estimator for Rigid Motion Synchronization Zhao, Ziyue Liu, Huikang Yue, Man-Chung Optimization and Control Signal Processing A rigid motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$ consists of a proper rotation and a translation, and it can be represented as a matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{(d+1)\times (d+1)}$. The problem of rigid motion synchronization aims to estimate a collection of rigid motions $G^*_1, \dots, G^*_n$ from noisy observations of their comparisons ${G^*_i}^{-1} G^*_j$. Such problems naturally arise in diverse applications across signal processing, robotics, and computer vision, and have thus attracted intense research attention in recent years. Motivated by geometric considerations, this paper develops a novel spectral approach for rigid motion synchronization, called the anchored spectral estimator (ASE). Theoretically, we establish uniform estimation error bounds for the estimators produced by ASE. Empirically, we show that ASE outperforms the widely used two-stage approach, which first estimates the rotations and then the translations. Further numerical experiments on the multiple point-set registration problem are presented to demonstrate the superiority of ASE over state-of-the-art methods. |
| title | Anchored Spectral Estimator for Rigid Motion Synchronization |
| topic | Optimization and Control Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13915 |