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This paper is concerned with the robust computation of motion and structure parameters, which describe an observer’s translation and rotation and the environmental structure, i.e. the depth of visible 3D points. Our new algorithms involve solving linear systems of equations relating these motion and structure parameters to time-varying image velocity. As in [9], our algorithms do not impose a local surface model but rather decouple depth scaled speed and the direction of translation from each other in the image velocity equation and then solve for each separately. However, since time-varying image velocity is used, an observer acceleration model is required.
We gratefully acknowledge support from ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) of Ontario and NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
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Barron, J.L. (1992). Motion and Structure in Rigid Multi-Surfaced Stationary Environments Using Time-Varying Image Velocity: Linear Solutions. In: Arcelli, C., Cordella, L.P., di Baja, G.S. (eds) Visual Form. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0715-8_5
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