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A closed-form solution to tensor voting: theory and applications.

Tai-Pang Wu1, Sai-Kit Yeung, Jiaya Jia

  • 1Enterprise and Consumer Electronics Group, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, Shatin, Hong Kong. tpwu@astri.org

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|December 21, 2011
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We introduce a closed-form solution to tensor voting (CFTV) for accurate structure detection and outlier removal. This method, embedded in expectation maximization (EMTV), offers robust parameter estimation without random sampling.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Computational Geometry
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Tensor voting is a powerful framework for structure detection in point clouds.
  • Existing methods often struggle with outlier attenuation and parameter estimation robustness.
  • Markov random fields (MRFs) offer a probabilistic approach to modeling spatial dependencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a closed-form solution for tensor voting (CFTV) enabling efficient and accurate structure detection.
  • To prove the convergence of tensor voting on MRFs (MRFTV) for stationary structure propagation.
  • To introduce an expectation maximization framework with tensor voting (EMTV) for robust parameter estimation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a closed-form solution for tensor voting (CFTV) applicable to point sets in any dimension.
  • Proved the convergence of CFTV on Markov random fields (MRFTV), ensuring stationary tensor states.
  • Integrated structure-aware tensors into an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm (EMTV) for parameter optimization.

Main Results:

  • CFTV provides an exact, continuous, and efficient algorithm for structure-aware tensor computation.
  • MRFTV demonstrates convergence properties for structure propagation on MRFs.
  • EMTV achieves robust and efficient parameter estimation for linear structures, outperforming existing methods in fundamental matrix estimation for multiview stereo matching.

Conclusions:

  • CFTV offers a significant advancement in structure detection and outlier attenuation.
  • MRFTV provides theoretical grounding for tensor voting convergence in probabilistic graphical models.
  • EMTV presents a novel, robust, and efficient approach for parameter estimation in computer vision tasks.