Simple Fast Vectorial Solution to The Rigid 3D Registration Problem

06/02/2018
by   Jin Wu, et al.
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A novel solution is obtained to solve the rigid 3D registration problem, motivated by previous eigen-decomposition approaches. Different from existing solvers, the proposed algorithm does not require sophisticated matrix operations e.g. singular value decomposition or eigenvalue decomposition. Instead, the optimal eigenvector of the point cross-covariance matrix can be computed within several iterations. It is also proven that the optimal rotation matrix can be directly computed for cases without need of quaternion. The simple framework provides very easy approach of integer-implementation on specialized platforms like FPGA and GPU. Simulations on noise-corrupted point clouds have verified the robustness and computation speed of the proposed method. The final results indicate that the proposed algorithm is accurate, robust and owns over 30%∼ 80% less computation time than representatives. It has also been applied to real-world applications for faster relative robotic navigation.

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