Registration of multiple point sets

Author

Stoddart, A.J. ; Hilton, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

25-29 Aug 1996

Firstpage

40

Abstract

Registering 3D point sets subject to rigid body motion is a common problem in computer vision. The optimal transformation is usually specified to be the minimum of a weighted least squares cost. The case of 2 point sets has been solved by several authors using analytic methods such as SVD. In this paper we present a numerical method for solving the problem when there are more than 2 point sets. Although of general applicability the new method is particularly aimed at the multiview surface registration problem. To date almost all authors have registered only two point sets at a time. This approach discards information and we show in quantitative terms the errors caused

Keywords

computer vision; convergence of numerical methods; iterative methods; 3D point sets; computer vision; multiple point sets; multiview surface registration problem; rigid body motion; weighted least squares cost; Application software; Computer errors; Computer vision; Cost function; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Least squares methods; Stereo vision; Surface reconstruction; Tactile sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7282-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.1996.546720

Filename

546720