An Approach to Robust ICP Initialization

Alexander Kolpakov, Michael Werman*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this note, we propose an approach to initialize the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm to match unlabelled point clouds related by rigid transformations. The method is based on matching the ellipsoids defined by the points' covariance matrices and then testing the various principal half-axes matchings that differ by elements of a finite reflection group. We derive bounds on the robustness of our approach to noise and numerical experiments confirm our theoretical findings.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12685-12691
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume45
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2023

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Keywords

  • ICP
  • image registration
  • image stitching

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