Patent ID: 8411966
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. In a system comprising a processor and a memory for storing a plurality of point correspondences (PCs) between two images of a same scene or object obtained from one or more cameras, a method for determining an output image relation model relating the two images, comprising: a) using the processor to perform a series of PC sampling steps, each PC sampling step comprising: b) obtaining, with the processor, the output image relation model using the information related to the accuracy of the computed image relation model estimates; and, c) saving the output image relation model in a computer-readable memory for generating new images; wherein the current values of the weight parameters assigned to the PCs remain constant in a first K PC sampling steps, so that same current values of the weight parameters are used for same PCs in selecting the PC subsets in the first K PC sampling steps, wherein K is an integer greater than 1, and wherein in at least one of the PC sampling steps following the first K PC sampling steps, the current values of the weight parameters are updated by the processor using the image relation model estimate computed in said at least one of the PC sampling steps.