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Pattern Recognition Letters
Volume 24, Issue 16, December 2003, Pages 2909-2911
 
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The impossibility of affine reconstruction from perspective image pairs obtained by a translating camera with varying parameters

Zhanyi HuCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Fuchao Wu and Guanghui WangE-mail The Corresponding Author

National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2728, Beijing 100080, PR China

Received 1 November 2002; 
revised 13 May 2003. 
Available online 31 July 2003.

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Abstract

Contrary to the claim in the literature that the affine reconstruction is possible from two images captured by a translating camera with unknown and varying parameters, we show that such a reconstruction is in fact impossible. In other words, the knowledge that “the camera’s motion between the two images is just a pure translation” is an insufficient piece of information for affine reconstruction.

Author Keywords: Affine reconstruction; Translating camera; Varying camera parameters; Infinite homography

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. What can be drawn from a pure translation of camera motion
3. The impossibility of affine reconstruction
Acknowledgements
References

Pattern Recognition Letters
Volume 24, Issue 16, December 2003, Pages 2909-2911
 
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