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The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a fundamental and computationally effective algorithm for solving optimization problems with nonsmooth components. In this paper, we conduct a theoretical investigation of a modified proximal bundle…
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Bundle adjustment plays a vital role in feature-based monocular SLAM. In many modern SLAM pipelines, bundle adjustment is performed to estimate the 6DOF camera trajectory and 3D map (3D point cloud) from the input feature tracks. However,…
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Millimeter wave communications rely on narrow-beam transmissions to cope with the strong signal attenuation at these frequencies, thus demanding precise beam alignment between transmitter and receiver. The communication overhead incurred to…
Low-rank matrix approximation plays an important role in various applications such as image processing, signal processing and data analysis. The existing methods require a guess of the ranks of matrices that represent images or involve…
This paper presents a hierarchical low-rank decomposition algorithm assuming any matrix element can be computed in $O(1)$ time. The proposed algorithm computes rank-revealing decompositions of sub-matrices with a blocked adaptive cross…
We tackle the problem of bundle adjustment (i.e., simultaneous refinement of camera poses and scene map) for a purely rotating event camera. Starting from first principles, we formulate the problem as a classical non-linear least squares…