Estimating the essential matrix by efficient linear techniques

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 925-935

  Izquierdo, Ebroul ^a   Guerra, Valia ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIBERNÉTICA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Epipolar geometry; Essential matrix; Linear problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAMERAS; ESTIMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

EIGHT-POINT ALGORITHM; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; ESSENTIAL MATRIX;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 0142123367     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.816503     Document Type: Article

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