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A generalized Kernel Consensus-based robust estimator.

Hanzi Wang1, Daniel Mirota, Gregory D Hager

  • 1School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia. hanzi.wang@ieee.org

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|November 21, 2009
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We introduce the Adaptive-Scale Kernel Consensus (ASKC) robust estimator, a unified framework generalizing methods like RANSAC. ASKC effectively handles over 50% outliers and estimates inlier scale for computer vision tasks.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Robust Estimation
  • Nonparametric Statistics

Background:

  • Robust estimators like RANSAC, ASSC, and MKDE are crucial for handling outliers in data.
  • Existing methods have limitations in unifying different approaches and automatically estimating scale.
  • Nonparametric kernel density estimation provides a theoretical foundation for robust consensus.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a generalized robust estimator, Adaptive-Scale Kernel Consensus (ASKC).
  • To unify existing state-of-the-art robust estimators under a single framework.
  • To develop an estimator capable of handling a high percentage of outliers and estimating inlier scale.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Adaptive-Scale Kernel Consensus (ASKC) framework based on nonparametric kernel density estimation.
  • Demonstrated that existing methods (RANSAC, ASSC, MKDE) are special cases of ASKC.
  • Applied ASKC to robust motion and pose estimation problems.

Main Results:

  • ASKC successfully generalizes and unifies popular robust estimators.
  • ASKC demonstrates tolerance to more than 50% outliers.
  • ASKC automatically estimates the scale of inliers, improving accuracy.
  • Comparative results on synthetic and real data show ASKC's effectiveness in motion and pose estimation.

Conclusions:

  • ASKC offers a unified and more capable approach to robust estimation in computer vision.
  • The framework's ability to handle outliers and estimate scale makes it highly applicable.
  • ASKC advances the field of robust estimation, particularly for motion and pose estimation tasks.