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Epilines not correct

asked 2013-08-03 07:54:59 -0600

Abid Rahman K gravatar image

updated 2013-08-04 06:03:02 -0600

Hi,

I am trying to draw epilines on two images. But only one is shown correctly. See my result below:

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Epilines on the first image (left) seems to be correct since epipole matches with location of second camera. But what about the second image. I expected it to be converged somewhere at left, but it is not. Any idea what is the reason?

Here is my code : https://gist.github.com/abidrahmank/6146351

UPDATE:

Just interchanging input images (img1 and img2) gives me following result which looks more better. (But it works only on this set of images)

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Why does it happen like this?

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Just interchanging the images gives more accurate results in both the cases

Abid Rahman K gravatar imageAbid Rahman K ( 2013-08-03 07:56:31 -0600 )edit

Hi where to get this pics? would be nice that i can test my program.. thx

3gfisch gravatar image3gfisch ( 2014-08-20 18:41:26 -0600 )edit

I need these pictures! Where i can find them?

Canzoni 2017

maro92 gravatar imagemaro92 ( 2016-09-22 17:16:46 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-08-18 06:28:22 -0600

Alexander Mordvintsev gravatar image

The problem with this particular scene is that almost all matched points lie on the same plane in 3d space. This is a known degenerate case for fundamental matrix estimation. Take a look these slides for explanation. I tried to increase 2nd nearest neighbor threshold in this code from 0.7 to 0.8:

for i,(m,n) in enumerate(matches):
    if m.distance < 0.8*n.distance: # was 0.7
        good.append(m)

and got the following result: epilines

Note the corrctly matched out-of-plane background points.

In general fundamental matrix estimation is very sensitive to quality of matches and number of outliers, since opencv uses 8-point algorithm for model estimation. Try to work with higher resolution images with rich textures and non-planar scenes.

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how can you get m & n for matches ? are these key points ? I use c++ and there is no distance variable in keypoints, only in matches

curtis newton gravatar imagecurtis newton ( 2014-08-29 10:40:21 -0600 )edit

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