Generalized subgraph preconditioners for large-scale bundle adjustment

  • Authors:
  • Yong-Dian Jian;Doru C. Balcan;Frank Dellaert

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology;College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology;College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision: outdoor and large-scale real-world scene analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose the Generalized Subgraph Preconditioners (GSP) to solve large-scale bundle adjustment problems efficiently. In contrast with previous work using either direct or iterative methods alone, GSP combines their advantages and is significantly faster on large datasets. Similar to [12], the main idea is to identify a sub-problem (subgraph) that can be solved efficiently by direct methods and use its solution to build a preconditioner for the conjugate gradient method. The difference is that GSP is more general and leads to more effective preconditioners. When applied to the "bal" datasets [2], our method shows promising results.