paper

The Chow Form of the Essential Variety in Computer Vision

arXiv:1604.04372

Abstract

The Chow form of the essential variety in computer vision is calculated. Our derivation uses secant varieties, Ulrich sheaves and representation theory. Numerical experiments show that our formula can detect noisy point correspondences between two images.

27 pages, 1 figure, 6 Macaulay2 ancillary files. v2: edits to Theorem 1.1, references, acknowledgements