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Stable Structure from Motion for Unordered Image Collections

Olsson, Carl LU and Enqvist, Olof LU (2011) 17th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2011) 6688. p.524-535
Abstract
We present a non-incremental approach to structure from motion. Our solution is based on robustly computing global rotations from relative geometries and feeding these into the known-rotation framework to create an initial solution for bundle adjustment. To increase robustness we present a new method for constructing reliable point tracks from pairwise matches. We show that our method can be seen as maximizing the reliability of a point track if the quality of the weakest link in the track is used to evaluate reliability. To estimate the final geometry we alternate between bundle adjustment and a robust version of the known-rotation formulation. The ability to compute both structure and camera translations independent of initialization... (More)
We present a non-incremental approach to structure from motion. Our solution is based on robustly computing global rotations from relative geometries and feeding these into the known-rotation framework to create an initial solution for bundle adjustment. To increase robustness we present a new method for constructing reliable point tracks from pairwise matches. We show that our method can be seen as maximizing the reliability of a point track if the quality of the weakest link in the track is used to evaluate reliability. To estimate the final geometry we alternate between bundle adjustment and a robust version of the known-rotation formulation. The ability to compute both structure and camera translations independent of initialization makes our algorithm insensitive to degenerate epipolar geometries. We demonstrate the performance of our system on a number of image collections. (Less)
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Structure from motion, computer vision
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Image Analysis : 17th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2011, Ystad, Sweden, May 2011. Proceedings)
editor
Anders, Heyden and Fredrik, Kahl
volume
6688
pages
12 pages
publisher
Springer
conference name
17th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2011)
conference location
Ystad, Sweden
conference dates
2011-05-23 - 2011-05-27
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  • wos:000308543900049
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ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
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978-3-642-21226-0 (print)
978-3-642-21227-7 (online)
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10.1007/978-3-642-21227-7_49
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English
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  author       = {{Olsson, Carl and Enqvist, Olof}},
  booktitle    = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Image Analysis : 17th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2011, Ystad, Sweden, May 2011. Proceedings)}},
  editor       = {{Anders, Heyden and Fredrik, Kahl}},
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  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  keywords     = {{Structure from motion; computer vision}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{524--535}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Stable Structure from Motion for Unordered Image Collections}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-642-21227-7_49}},
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