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We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Gil Ben-Artzi

We propose three novel solvers for estimating the relative pose of a multi-camera system from affine correspondences (ACs). A new constraint is derived interpreting the relationship of ACs and the generalized camera model. Using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Banglei Guan , Ji Zhao , Daniel Barath , Friedrich Fraundorfer

This work provides a theoretical analysis for optimally solving the pose estimation problem using total least squares for vector observations from landmark features, which is central to applications involving simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Saeed Maleki , Adhiti Raman , Yang Cheng , John Crassidis , Matthias Schmid

In this paper, we aim to estimate the relative pose and focal length between two views with known intrinsic parameters except for an unknown focal length from two affine correspondences (ACs). Cameras are commonly used in combination with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhenbao Yu , Shirong Ye , Ronghe Jin , Shunkun Liang , Zibin Liu , Huiyun Zhang , Banglei Guan

Many important geometric estimation problems take the form of synchronization over the special Euclidean group: estimate the values of a set of poses given a set of relative measurements between them. This problem is typically formulated as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-07 David M. Rosen , Luca Carlone , Afonso S. Bandeira , John J. Leonard

We consider a certifiable object pose estimation problem, where -- given a partial point cloud of an object -- the goal is to not only estimate the object pose, but also to provide a certificate of correctness for the resulting estimate.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rajat Talak , Lisa Peng , Luca Carlone

We propose an algorithm-independent framework to equip existing optimization methods with primal-dual certificates. Such certificates and corresponding rate of convergence guarantees are important for practitioners to diagnose progress, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Celestine Dünner , Simone Forte , Martin Takáč , Martin Jaggi

Estimating pose from given 3D correspondences, including point-to-point, point-to-line and point-to-plane correspondences, is a fundamental task in computer vision with many applications. We present a complete solution for this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Lipu Zhou , Shengze Wang , Jiamin Ye , Michael Kaess

Recent results in Compressive Sensing have shown that, under certain conditions, the solution to an underdetermined system of linear equations with sparsity-based regularization can be accurately recovered by solving convex relaxations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Dheeraj Singaraju , Ehsan Elhamifar , Roberto Tron , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Most sensor setups for onboard autonomous perception are composed of LiDARs and vision systems, as they provide complementary information that improves the reliability of the different algorithms necessary to obtain a robust scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jorge Beltrán , Carlos Guindel , Arturo de la Escalera , Fernando García

We study the problem of finding optimal sparse, manifold-aligned counterfactual explanations for classifiers. Canonically, this can be formulated as an optimization problem with multiple non-convex components, including classifier loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shpresim Sadiku , Moritz Wagner , Sai Ganesh Nagarajan , Sebastian Pokutta

We propose the first general and scalable framework to design certifiable algorithms for robust geometric perception in the presence of outliers. Our first contribution is to show that estimation using common robust costs, such as truncated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Heng Yang , Luca Carlone

This paper provides a new regularization method which is particularly suitable for linear exponentially ill-posed problems. Under logarithmic source conditions (which have a natural interpretation in terms of Sobolev spaces in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Walter Cedric Simo Tao Lee

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

To provide backup and augmentation to global navigation satellite system (GNSS), Doppler shift from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites can be employed as signals of opportunity (SOP) for position, navigation and timing (PNT). Since the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Baoshan Song , Weisong Wen , Qi Zhang , Bing Xu , Li-Ta Hsu

We present a new insight into the systematic generation of minimal solvers in computer vision, which leads to smaller and faster solvers. Many minimal problem formulations are coupled sets of linear and polynomial equations where image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Zuzana Kukelova , Joe Kileel , Bernd Sturmfels , Tomas Pajdla

We present a novel solution to the camera pose estimation problem, where rotation and translation of a camera between two views are estimated from matched feature points in the images. The camera pose estimation problem is traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Kaveh Fathian , J. Pablo Ramirez-Paredes , Emily A. Doucette , J. Willard Curtis , Nicholas R. Gans

Smartphones, tablets and camera systems used, e.g., in cars and UAVs, are typically equipped with IMUs (inertial measurement units) that can measure the gravity vector accurately. Using this additional information, the $y$-axes of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yaqing Ding , Daniel Barath , Jian Yang , Hui Kong , Zuzana Kukelova

Energy minimization algorithms, such as graph cuts, enable the computation of the MAP solution under certain probabilistic models such as Markov random fields. However, for many computer vision problems, the MAP solution under the model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Yongsub Lim , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli

We study the computational complexity certification of inexact gradient augmented Lagrangian methods for solving convex optimization problems with complicated constraints. We solve the augmented Lagrangian dual problem that arises from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Valentin Nedelcu , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran Dinh