SBA: A software package for generic sparse bundle adjustment

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lourakis, Manolis I A ^a   Argyros, Antonis A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bundle adjustment; Engineering applications; Levenberg Marquardt; Multiple view geometry; Nonlinear least squares; Sparse Jacobian; Structure and motion estimation; Unconstrained optimization

Indexed keywords

BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT; MULTIPLE-VIEW GEOMETRY; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES; SPARSE JACOBIAN; STRUCTURE AND MOTION ESTIMATION; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER VISION; CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649243035     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: 15577295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1486525.1486527     Document Type: Article

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