Complete Endomorphisms in Computer Vision
This provides a robust framework for relating corresponding views in computer vision, addressing a specific limitation in existing geometric models.
The paper tackles the problem of handling degenerate transformations in multiple view geometry by introducing a completion of bilinear maps, which extends to fundamental and essential matrices where traditional methods fail.
Correspondences between k-tuples of points are key in multiple view geometry and motion analysis. Regular transformations are posed by homographies between two projective planes that serves as structural models for images. Such transformations can not include degenerate situations. Fundamental or essential matrices expand homographies with structural information by using degenerate bilinear maps. The projectivization of the endomorphisms of a three-dimensional vector space includes all of them. Hence, they are able to explain a wider range of eventually degenerate transformations between arbitrary pairs of views. To include these degenerate situations, this paper introduces a completion of bilinear maps between spaces given by an equivariant compactification of regular transformations. This completion is extensible to the varieties of fundamental and essential matrices, where most methods based on regular transformations fail. The construction of complete endomorphisms manages degenerate projection maps using a simultaneous action on source and target spaces. In such way, this mathematical construction provides a robust framework to relate corresponding views in multiple view geometry.