6 accepted papers
Bundle adjustment is a long-standing problem in computer vision that solves for camera parameters and 3D point coordinates from 2D image observations. While there has been much work on various aspects, like adaptation to different camera models and sensors, and considerations for solving the optimiz
Visual SLAM is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision, with direct applications to real-time localization tasks such as AR/VR, robotics, and 3D scene reconstruction. Although significant progress has been made in both sparse and dense approaches, real-time monocular SLAM remains cha
In Structure-from-Motion (SfM) the underlying viewgraphs of unordered image collections generally have a highly redundant set of edges that can be sparsified for efficiency without significant loss of reconstruction quality. Often there are also false edges due to incorrect image retrieval and repea…
Geometric estimation problems in vision are often solved via minimization of statistical loss functions which account for the presence of outliers in the observations. The corresponding energy landscape often has many local minima. Many approaches attempt to avoid local minima by annealing the scale…
In 3D computer vision, translation averaging solves for absolute translations given a set of pairwise relative translation directions. While there has been much work on robustness to outliers and studies on the uniqueness of the solution, this paper deals with a distinctly different problem of sensi…
"Translation averaging methods use the consistency of input translation directions to solve for camera translations. However, translation directions obtained using epipolar geometry are error-prone. This paper argues that the improved accuracy of translation averaging should be leveraged to mitigate…