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Absolute orientation

The image coordinates and recovered depths give complete estimates of the 3D coordinates of the reference points in camera-centered coordinates. There remains the determination of a similarity transformation between two sets of 3D points . The best rotation in the least squares sense can be found in closed-form using quaternions [4,2]. The determination of the translation and scale immediately follow from the rotation.



Bob Fisher
Mon Mar 29 14:15:27 BST 1999