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The Chow Form of the Essential Variety in Computer Vision

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-15 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Commutative Algebra

Abstract

The Chow form of the essential variety in computer vision is calculated. Our derivation uses secant varieties, Ulrich sheaves and representation theory. Numerical experiments show that our formula can detect noisy point correspondences between two images.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04372,
  title  = {The Chow Form of the Essential Variety in Computer Vision},
  author = {Gunnar Fløystad and Joe Kileel and Giorgio Ottaviani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04372},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

27 pages, 1 figure, 6 Macaulay2 ancillary files. v2: edits to Theorem 1.1, references, acknowledgements