Exact and stable recovery of rotations for robust synchronization

Information and Inference

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-193

  Wang, Lanhui ^a   Singer, Amit ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating direction method; Least unsquared deviation; Semidefinite relaxation; Synchronization of rotations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071591797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20498772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaiai/iat005     Document Type: Article

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