The Chern-Mather class of the multiview variety

DOI10.1080/00927872.2017.1392545zbMATH Open1422.14016arXiv1701.07079OpenAlexW2580799401MaRDI QIDQ4570920FDOQ4570920

Authors: Corey Harris, Daniel Lowengrub 

Publication date: 10 July 2018

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The multiview variety associated to a collection of $N$ cameras records which sequences of image points in $mathbb{P}^{2N}$ can be obtained by taking pictures of a given world point $xinmathbb{P}^3$ with the cameras. In order to reconstruct a scene from its picture under the different cameras it is important to be able to find the critical points of the function which measures the distance between a general point $uinmathbb{P}^{2N}$ and the multiview variety. In this paper we calculate a specific degree $3$ polynomial that computes the number of critical points as a function of $N$. In order to do this, we construct a resolution of the multiview variety, and use it to compute its Chern-Mather class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07079

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zbMATH Keywords

computer visionChern-Mather classEuclidean distance degreeChern-Schwartz-MacPherson classhigher discriminants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Rational and birational maps (14E05) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Questions of classical algebraic geometry (51N35) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Computational aspects of higher-dimensional varieties (14Q15)

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• Defect of Euclidean distance degree
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