Continuous Time Matching Constraints for Image Streams

  • Authors:
  • Kalle Åström;Anders Heyden

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. E-mail:kalle@maths.lth.se, heyden@maths.lth.se;Department of Mathematics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. E-mail:kalle@maths.lth.se, heyden@maths.lth.se

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Corresponding image points of a rigid object in a discrete sequence of images fulfil the so-called multilinear constraint.In this paper the continuous time analogue of thisconstraint, for a continuous stream of images, is introduced and studied.The constraint links the Taylor series expansion of the motion of the image points with theTaylor series expansion of the relative motion and orientation betweenthe object and the camera.The analysis is done both for calibrated and uncalibrated cameras.Two simplifications are also presented for the uncalibrated cameracase. One simplification is made using an affine reduction andthe so-called kinetic depths.The second simplification is based upon a projectivereduction with respect to the image of a planar configuration.The analysis shows that the constraint involving second-order derivativesare needed to determine camera motion. Experimentswith real and simulated data are also presented.