Title
A fast algorithm for multidimensional ellipsoid-specific fitting by minimizing a new defined vector norm of residuals using semidefinite programming.
Abstract
A quadratic surface in n-dimensional space is defined as the locus of zeros of a quadratic polynomial. The quadratic polynomial may be compactly written in notation by an (n+1)-vector and a real symmetric matrix of order n+1, where the vector represents homogenous coordinates of an n-D point, and the symmetric matrix is constructed from the quadratic coefficients. If an n-D quadratic surface is an n-D ellipsoid, the leading n × n principal submatrix of the symmetric matrix would be positive or opposite definite. As we know, to impose a matrix being positive or opposite definite, perhaps the best choice may be to employ semidefinite programming (SDP). From such straightforward and intuitive knowledge, in the literature until 2002, Calafiore first proposed a feasible method for multidimensional ellipsoid-specific fitting using SDP, which minimizes the 2--norm of the algebraic residual vector. However, the runtime of the method is significantly long and memory is often out when the number of fitted points is greater than several thousand. In this paper, we propose a fast and easily implemented algorithm for multidimensional ellipsoid-specific fitting by minimizing a new defined vector norm of the algebraic residual vector using SDP, which drastically decreases the size of the SDP problem while preserving accuracy. The proposed fast method can handle several million fitted points without any difficulty.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TPAMI.2012.109
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
new defined vector norm,n-d quadratic surface,algebraic residual vector,sdp problem,quadratic polynomial,multidimensional ellipsoid-specific fitting,real symmetric matrix,symmetric matrix,vector norm,semidefinite programming,fast algorithm,quadratic surface,quadratic coefficient,minimization,mathematical programming,symmetric matrices,polynomials,fitting,programming,vectors,quadratic programming
Isotropic quadratic form,Ellipsoid,Algorithm,Symmetric matrix,Quadratic function,Norm (mathematics),Quadratic programming,Definite quadratic form,Semidefinite programming,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
9
1939-3539
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xianghua Ying122123.55
Li Yang221.10
Hongbin Zha32206183.36