Randomized RANSAC with Sequential Probability Ratio Test


Matas, Jiří, Chum, Ondřej
ICCV 2005, New York, USA
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Volume II, Pages 1727-1732
October, 2005

Abstract

A randomized model verification strategy for RANSAC is presented. The proposed method finds, like RANSAC, a solution that is optimal with user-controllable probability. A provably optimal model verification strategy is designed for the situation when the contamination of data by outliers is known, i.e. the algorithm is the fastest possible (on average) of all randomized RANSAC algorithms guaranteeing confidence in the solution. The derivation of the optimality property is based on Wald.s theory of sequential decision making. The R-RANSAC with SPRT, which does not require the a priori knowledge of the fraction of outliers and has results close to the optimal strategy, is introduced. We show experimentally that on standard test data the method is 2 to 10 times faster than the standard RANSAC and up to 4 times faster than previously published methods.

Keywords

RANSAC, SPRT, randomised verification, robust estimation, epipolar geometry, homography


Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{Matas-ICCV05,
  author      = {Matas, Ji{\vr}{\'i} and Chum, Ond{\vr}ej},
  title       = {Randomized RANSAC with Sequential Probability Ratio Test},
  year        = {2005},
  volume      = {II},
  pages       = {1727--1732},
  month       = {October},
  booktitle   = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  keywords    = {RANSAC, SPRT, randomised verification, robust estimation, 
                 epipolar geometry, homography} ,
  project     = {1M0567, COSPAL IST-004176},
  publisher   = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address     = {New York, USA},
  isbn        = {0-7695-2334-X},
  editor      = {Ma, Songde and Shum, Heung-Yeung},
  day         = {15--21},
  venue       = {Hotel Beijing, Beijing, China},
  annote = {A randomized model verification strategy for RANSAC is
    presented. The proposed method finds, like RANSAC, a solution that
    is optimal with user-controllable probability. A provably optimal
    model verification strategy is designed for the situation when the
    contamination of data by outliers is known, i.e. the algorithm is
    the fastest possible (on average) of all randomized RANSAC
    algorithms guaranteeing confidence in the solution. The derivation
    of the optimality property is based on Wald.s theory of sequential
    decision making. The R-RANSAC with SPRT, which does not require
    the a priori knowledge of the fraction of outliers and has results
    close to the optimal strategy, is introduced. We show
    experimentally that on standard test data the method is 2 to 10
    times faster than the standard RANSAC and up to 4 times faster
    than previously published methods.},
}