Efficient guided hypothesis generation for multi-structure epipolar geometry estimation

We propose an Efficient Guided Hypothesis Generation (EGHG) method for multi-structure epipolar geometry estimation. Based on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo process, EGHG combines two guided sampling strategies: a global sampling strategy and a local sampling strategy. The global sampling strategy, guided by using both spatial sampling probabilities and keypoint matching scores, rapidly obtains promising solutions. The spatial sampling probabilities are computed by using a normalized exponential loss function. The local sampling strategy, guided by using both Joint Feature Distributions (JFDs) and key point matching scores, efficiently achieves accurate solutions. In the local sampling strategy, EGHG updates a set of current best hypothesis candidates on the fly, and then computes JFDs between the input data and these candidates. Experimental results on public real image pairs show that EGHG significantly outperforms several state-of-the-art sampling methods on multi-structure data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.