Uniqueness and Estimation of Three-Dimensional Motion Parameters of Rigid Objects with Curved Surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Roger Y. Tsai;Thomas S. Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801/ IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.;Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Two main results are established in this paper. First, we show that seven point correspondences are sufficient to uniquely determine from two perspective views the three-dimensional motion parameters (within a scale factor for the translations) of a rigid object with curved surfaces. The seven points should not be traversed by two planes with one plane containing the origin, nor by a cone containing the origin. Second, a set of ``essential parameters'' are introduced which uniquely determine the motion parameters up to a scale factor for the translations, and can be estimated by solving a set of linear equations which are derived from the correspondences of eight image points. The actual motion parameters can subsequently be determined by computing the singular value decomposition (SVD) of a 3脳3 matrix containing the essential parameters.