Bayesian epipolar geometry estimation from tomographic projections

Sami Sebastian Brandt, Katrine Hommelhoff Jensen, Francois Bernard Lauze

Abstract

In this paper, we first show that the affine epipolar geometry can be estimated by identifying the common 1D projection from a pair of tomographic parallel projection images and the 1D affine transform between the common 1D projections. To our knowledge, the link between the common 1D projections and the affine epipolar geometry has been unknown previously; and in contrast to the traditional methods of estimating the epipolar geometry, no point correspondences are required. Using these properties, we then propose a Bayesian method for estimating the affine epipolar geometry, where we apply a Gaussian model for the noise and non-informative priors for the nuisance parameters. We derive an analytic form for the marginal posterior distribution, where the nuisance parameters are integrated out. The marginal posterior is sampled by a hybrid Gibbs-Metropolis-Hastings sampler and the conditional mean and the covariance over the posterior are evaluated on the homogeneous manifold of affine fundamental matrices. We obtained promising results with synthetic 3D Shepp-Logan phantom as well as with real cryo-electron microscope projections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ACCV 2012 : 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Daejeon, Korea, November 5-9, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part IV
EditorsKyoung Mu Lee, Yasuyuki Matsushita, James M. Rehg, Zhanyi Hu
Number of pages12
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2013
Pages231-242
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-37446-3
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-37447-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventThe 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 5 Nov 20129 Nov 2012
Conference number: 11

Conference

ConferenceThe 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision
Number11
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period05/11/201209/11/2012
SeriesLecture notes in computer science
Volume7727
ISSN0302-9743

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