% FUNDMATRIX - computes fundamental matrix from 8 or more points % % Function computes the fundamental matrix from 8 or more matching points in % a stereo pair of images. The normalised 8 point algorithm given by % Hartley and Zisserman p265 is used. To achieve accurate results it is % recommended that 12 or more points are used % % Usage: [F, e1, e2] = fundmatrix(x1, x2) % [F, e1, e2] = fundmatrix(x) % % Arguments: % x1, x2 - Two sets of corresponding 3xN set of homogeneous % points. % % x - If a single argument is supplied it is assumed that it % is in the form x = [x1; x2] % Returns: % F - The 3x3 fundamental matrix such that x2'*F*x1 = 0. % e1 - The epipole in image 1 such that F*e1 = 0 % e2 - The epipole in image 2 such that F'*e2 = 0 % % Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Peter Kovesi % School of Computer Science & Software Engineering % The University of Western Australia % http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/ % % Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy % of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal % in the Software without restriction, subject to the following conditions: % % The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in % all copies or substantial portions of the Software. % % The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. % Feb 2002 - Original version. % May 2003 - Tidied up and numerically improved. % Feb 2004 - Single argument allowed to enable use with RANSAC. % Mar 2005 - Epipole calculation added, 'economy' SVD used. % Aug 2005 - Octave compatibility function [F,e1,e2] = fundmatrix(varargin) [x1, x2, npts] = checkargs(varargin(:)); Octave = exist('OCTAVE_VERSION') ~= 0; % Are we running under Octave? % Normalise each set of points so that the origin % is at centroid and mean distance from origin is sqrt(2). % normalise2dpts also ensures the scale parameter is 1. [x1, T1] = normalise2dpts(x1); [x2, T2] = normalise2dpts(x2); % Build the constraint matrix A = [x2(1,:)'.*x1(1,:)' x2(1,:)'.*x1(2,:)' x2(1,:)' ... x2(2,:)'.*x1(1,:)' x2(2,:)'.*x1(2,:)' x2(2,:)' ... x1(1,:)' x1(2,:)' ones(npts,1) ]; if Octave [U,D,V] = svd(A); % Don't seem to be able to use the economy % decomposition under Octave here else [U,D,V] = svd(A,0); % Under MATLAB use the economy decomposition end % Extract fundamental matrix from the column of V corresponding to % smallest singular value. F = reshape(V(:,9),3,3)'; % Enforce constraint that fundamental matrix has rank 2 by performing % a svd and then reconstructing with the two largest singular values. [U,D,V] = svd(F,0); F = U*diag([D(1,1) D(2,2) 0])*V'; % Denormalise F = T2'*F*T1; if nargout == 3 % Solve for epipoles [U,D,V] = svd(F,0); e1 = hnormalise(V(:,3)); e2 = hnormalise(U(:,3)); end %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- % Function to check argument values and set defaults function [x1, x2, npts] = checkargs(arg); if length(arg) == 2 x1 = arg{1}; x2 = arg{2}; if ~all(size(x1)==size(x2)) error('x1 and x2 must have the same size'); elseif size(x1,1) ~= 3 error('x1 and x2 must be 3xN'); end elseif length(arg) == 1 if size(arg{1},1) ~= 6 error('Single argument x must be 6xN'); else x1 = arg{1}(1:3,:); x2 = arg{1}(4:6,:); end else error('Wrong number of arguments supplied'); end npts = size(x1,2); if npts < 8 error('At least 8 points are needed to compute the fundamental matrix'); end