Optimal motion estimation
- 7 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 229-237
- https://doi.org/10.1109/wvm.1989.47114
Abstract
The problem of using feature correspondences to recover the structure and 3D motion of a moving object from its successive images is analyzed. They formulate the problem as a quadratic minimization problem with a nonlinear constraint. Then they derive the condition for the solution to be optimal under the assumption of Gaussian noise in the input, in the maximum-likelihood-principle sense. The authors present two efficient ways to approximate it and discuss some inherent limitations of the structure-from-motion problem when two frames are used that should be taken into account in robotics applications that involve dynamic imagery. Finally, it is shown that some of the difficulties inherent in the two-frame approach disappear when redundancy in the data is introduced. This is concluded from experiments using a structure-from-motion algorithm that is based on multiple frames and uses only the rigidity assumption.Keywords
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