Title
Robust Fitting of Ellipsoids by Separating Interior and Exterior Points During Optimization.
Abstract
Fitting geometric or algebraic surfaces to 3D data is a pervasive problem in many fields of science and engineering. In particular, ellipsoids are some of the most employed features in computer graphics and sensor calibrations. They are also useful in pattern recognition, computer vision, body detection and electronic device design. Standard ellipsoid fitting techniques to solve this problem involve the minimization of squared errors. However, most of these procedures are sensitive to noise. Here, we propose a method based on the minimization of absolute errors. Although our algorithm is iterative, an adaptive step size is used to achieve a faster convergence. This leads to a substantial improvement in robustness against outlier data. The proposal is demonstrated with several computational examples which comprise synthetic data and real data from a 3D scanner and a stereo camera.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s10851-016-0700-6
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
Least absolute error,Ellipsoid fitting,Outliers,Robust estimation,Gradient descent
Convergence (routing),Computer vision,Stereo camera,Ellipsoid,Mathematical optimization,Gradient descent,Outlier,Robustness (computer science),Synthetic data,Artificial intelligence,Computer graphics,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
2
0924-9907
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
47
Authors
6