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Poster

Fundamental Matrix Estimation Using Relative Depths

Yaqing Ding · Václav Vávra · Snehal Bhayani · Qianliang Wu · Jian Yang · Zuzana Kukelova

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Abstract:

We propose a novel approach to the problem of estimating the fundamental matrix from point correspondences and their relative depths. Relative depths can be approximated from the scales of local features, which are commonly available or can be obtained from non-metric monocular depth estimates provided by popular deep learning-based methods. This makes the considered problem very relevant. To derive efficient solutions, we explore new geometric constraints on the fundamental matrix with known relative depths and present new algebraic constraints between the fundamental matrix and the translation vector. Using point correspondences and their relative depths, we derive novel efficient minimal solvers for two fully uncalibrated cameras, two cameras with different unknown focal lengths, and two cameras with equal unknown focal lengths, respectively. We propose different variants of these solvers based on the source of the relative depth information. We present detailed analyses and comparisons with state-of-the-art solvers, including results with 86,306 image pairs from three large-scale datasets.

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