Two-way ambiguity in 2D projective reconstruction from three uncalibrated 1D images
We show that there is, in general, a two-way ambiguity for 2D projective reconstruction from three uncalibrated 1D views, independent of the number of point correspondences. The two distinct projective reconstructions are exactly related by a quadratic transformation with the three camera centers as fundamental points. Unique 2D reconstruction is possible only when the three camera centers are aligned. By Carlsson duality, there is a dual two-way ambiguity for 2D projective reconstruction from six point correspondences, independent of the number of 1D views. The theoretical results are demonstrated on numerical examples.
ambiguity reconstruction 1d camera vision geometry