# CSE559A Lecture 26

## Continue on Geometry and Multiple Views

### The Essential and Fundamental Matrices

#### Math of the epipolar constraint: Calibrated case

Recall Epipolar Geometry

![Epipolar Geometry Configuration](https://notenextra.trance-0.com/CSE559A/Epipolar_geometry_setup.png)

Epipolar constraint:

If we set the config for the first camera as the world origin and $[I|0]\begin{pmatrix}y\\1\end{pmatrix}=x$, and $[R|t]\begin{pmatrix}y\\1\end{pmatrix}=x'$, then

Notice that $x'\cdot [t\times (Ry)]=0$

$$
x'^\top E x_1 = 0
$$

We denote the constraint defined by the Essential Matrix as $E$.

$E x$ is the epipolar line associated with $x$ ($l'=Ex$)

$E^\top x'$ is the epipolar line associated with $x'$ ($l=E^\top x'$)

$E e=0$ and $E^\top e'=0$ ($x$ and $x'$ don't matter)

$E$ is singular (rank 2) and have five degrees of freedom.

#### Epipolar constraint: Uncalibrated case

If the calibration matrices $K$ and $K'$ are unknown, we can write the epipolar constraint in terms of unknown normalized coordinates:

$$
x'^\top_{norm} E x_{norm} = 0
$$

where $x_{norm}=K^{-1} x$, $x'_{norm}=K'^{-1} x'$

$$
x'^\top_{norm} E x_{norm} = 0\implies x'^\top_{norm} Fx=0
$$

where $F=K'^{-1}EK^{-1}$ is the **Fundamental Matrix**.

$$
(x',y',1)\begin{bmatrix}
f_{11} & f_{12} & f_{13} \\
f_{21} & f_{22} & f_{23} \\
f_{31} & f_{32} & f_{33}
\end{bmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}
x\\y\\1
\end{pmatrix}=0
$$

Properties of $F$:

$F x$ is the epipolar line associated with $x$ ($l'=F x$)

$F^\top x'$ is the epipolar line associated with $x'$ ($l=F^\top x'$)

$F e=0$ and $F^\top e'=0$

$F$ is singular (rank two) and has seven degrees of freedom

#### Estimating the fundamental matrix

Given: correspondences $x=(x,y,1)^\top$ and $x'=(x',y',1)^\top$

Constraint: $x'^\top F x=0$

$$
(x',y',1)\begin{bmatrix}
f_{11} & f_{12} & f_{13} \\
f_{21} & f_{22} & f_{23} \\
f_{31} & f_{32} & f_{33}
\end{bmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}
x\\y\\1
\end{pmatrix}=0
$$

**Each pair of correspondences gives one equation (one constraint)**

At least 8 pairs of correspondences are needed to solve for the 9 elements of $F$ (The eight point algorithm)

We know $F$ needs to be singular/rank 2. How do we force it to be singular?

Solution: take SVD of the initial estimate and throw out the smallest singular value

$$
F=U\begin{bmatrix}
\sigma_1 & 0 \\
0 & \sigma_2 \\
0 & 0
\end{bmatrix}V^\top
$$

## Structure from Motion

Not always uniquely solvable.

If we scale the entire scene by some factor $k$ and, at the same time, scale the camera matrices by the factor of $1/k$, the projections of the scene points remain exactly the same:
$x\cong PX  =(1/k P)(kX)$

Without a reference measurement, it is impossible to recover the absolute scale of the scene!

In general, if we transform the scene using a transformation $Q$ and apply the inverse transformation to the camera matrices, then the image observations do not change:

$x\cong PX  =(P Q^{-1})(QX)$

### Types of Ambiguities

![Ambiguities in projection](https://notenextra.trance-0.com/CSE559A/Ambiguities_in_projection.png)

### Affine projection : more general than orthographic

A general affine projection is a 3D-to-2D linear mapping plus translation:

$$
P=\begin{bmatrix}
a_{11} & a_{12} & a_{13} & t_1 \\
a_{21} & a_{22} & a_{23} & t_2 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1
\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}
A & t \\
0^\top & 1
\end{bmatrix}
$$

In non-homogeneous coordinates:

$$
\begin{pmatrix}
x\\y\\1
\end{pmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}
a_{11} & a_{12} & a_{13} \\
a_{21} & a_{22} & a_{23}
\end{bmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}
X\\Y\\Z
\end{pmatrix}+\begin{pmatrix}
t_1\\t_2
\end{pmatrix}=AX+t
$$

### Affine Structure from Motion

Given: 𝑚 images of 𝑛 fixed 3D points such that

$$
x_{ij}=A_iX_j+t_i, \quad i=1,\dots,m, \quad j=1,\dots,n
$$

Problem: use the 𝑚𝑛 correspondences $x_{ij}$ to estimate 𝑚 projection matrices $A_i$ and translation vectors $t_i$, and 𝑛 points $X_j$

The reconstruction is defined up to an arbitrary affine transformation $Q$ (12 degrees of freedom):

$$
\begin{bmatrix}
A & t \\
0^\top & 1
\end{bmatrix}\rightarrow\begin{bmatrix}
A & t \\
0^\top & 1
\end{bmatrix}Q^{-1}, \quad \begin{pmatrix}X_j\\1\end{pmatrix}\rightarrow Q\begin{pmatrix}X_j\\1\end{pmatrix}
$$

How many constraints and unknowns for $m$ images and $n$ points? 

$2mn$ constraints and $8m + 3n$ unknowns

To be able to solve this problem, we must have $2mn \geq 8m+3n-12$ (affine ambiguity takes away 12 dof)

E.g., for two views, we need four point correspondences

