Heteroscedastic regression in computer vision: problems with bilinear constraint

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-150

  Leedan, Yoram ^a   Meer, Peter ^b  

^a Rutgers University ^*  (Israel)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ELLIPSE FITTING; EPIPOLAR CONSTRAINT; GENERALIZED SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; HETEROSCEDASTIC REGRESSION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0034206736     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008185619375     Document Type: Article

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