Title
Square Root Bundle Adjustment for Large-Scale Reconstruction
Abstract
We propose a new formulation for the bundle adjustment problem which relies on nullspace marginalization of landmark variables by QR decomposition. Our approach, which we call square root bundle adjustment, is algebraically equivalent to the commonly used Schur complement trick, improves the numeric stability of computations, and allows for solving large-scale bundle adjustment problems with single-precision floating-point numbers. We show in real-world experiments with the BAL datasets that even in single precision the proposed solver achieves on average equally accurate solutions compared to Schur complement solvers using double precision. It runs significantly faster, but can require larger amounts of memory on dense problems. The proposed formulation relies on simple linear algebra operations and opens the way for efficient implementations of bundle adjustment on hardware platforms optimized for single-precision linear algebra processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.01155
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaus Demmel100.68
Christiane Sommer211.36
Daniel Cremers38236396.86
Vladyslav C. Usenko4528.53