Outlier removal using duality

Carl Olsson*, Anders Eriksson, Richard Hartley

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    Abstract

    In this paper we consider the problem of outlier removal for large scale multiview reconstruction problems. An efficient and very popular method for this task is RANSAC. However, as RANSAC only works on a subset of the images, mismatches in longer point tracks may go undetected. To deal with this problem we would like to have, as a post processing step to RANSAC, a method that works on the entire (or a larger) part of the sequence. In this paper we consider two algorithms for doing this. The first one is related to a method by Sim & Hartley where a quasiconvex problem is solved repeatedly and the error residuals with the largest error is removed. Instead of solving a quasiconvex problem in each step we show that it is enough to solve a single LP or SOCP which yields a significant speedup. Using duality we show that the same theoretical result holds for our method. The second algorithm is a faster version of the first, and it is related to the popular method of L1-optimization. While it is faster and works very well in practice, there is no theoretical guarantee of success. We show that these two methods are related through duality, and evaluate the methods on a number of data sets with promising results.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2010
    Pages1450-1457
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2010 - San Francisco, CA, United States
    Duration: 13 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    ISSN (Print)1063-6919

    Conference

    Conference2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2010
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Francisco, CA
    Period13/06/1018/06/10

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