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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title A 5-Point Minimal Solver for Event Camera Relative Motion Estimation
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Ling Gao
  • Hang Sun
  • Daniel Gehrig
  • Marco Cannici
  • Davide Scaramuzza
  • Laurent Kneip
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 979-8-3503-0718-4
Page Range 8015 - 8025
Event Title 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Event Type conference
Event Location Paris, France
Event Start Date October 1 - 2023
Event End Date October 6 - 2023
Abstract Text Event-based cameras are ideal for line-based motion estimation, since they predominantly respond to edges in the scene. However, accurately determining the camera displacement based on events continues to be an open problem. This is because line feature extraction and dynamics estimation are tightly coupled when using event cameras, and no precise model is currently available for describing the complex structures generated by lines in the space-time volume of events. We solve this problem by deriving the correct non-linear parametrization of such manifolds, which we term eventails, and demonstrate its application to eventbased linear motion estimation, with known rotation from an Inertial Measurement Unit. Using this parametrization, we introduce a novel minimal 5-point solver that jointly estimates line parameters and linear camera velocity projections, which can be fused into a single, averaged linear velocity when considering multiple lines. We demonstrate on both synthetic and real data that our solver generates more stable relative motion estimates than other methods while capturing more inliers than clustering based on spatiotemporal planes. In particular, our method consistently achieves a 100% success rate in estimating linear velocity where existing closed-form solvers only achieve between 23% and 70%. The proposed eventails contribute to a better understanding of spatio-temporal event-generated geometries and we thus believe it will become a core building block of future event-based motion estimation algorithms.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00739
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