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access icon free Efficient image features selection and weighting for fundamental matrix estimation

In computer vision, it is a challenge to compute the relationship of multiple views from scene images. The view relationship can be obtained from the fundamental matrix. Thus, it is very important to compute an accurate fundamental matrix from unevenly distributed features in complex scene images. This study proposes a robust method to estimate the fundamental matrix from corresponding images. First, the authors introduce how to find matched features from scene images efficiently. The epipolar geometry can restrict the point correspondences to the polar line, but cannot cope with the false points lying on the line. To eliminate such mismatches, the authors present an affine constraint which can also merge the uniform regions produced by mean-shift segmentation. Second, inspired by the success of random sample consensus, the authors moderately improve the weighting function based on M-estimator to increase the accuracy of the fundamental matrix estimation. Experimental results on simulated data and real images show these works are efficient for estimating fundamental matrix. The authors also evaluated the accuracy of their method on computing the external parameters of two cameras. The result shows that this method obtains comparable performance to the more sophisticated calibration method.

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