Two-View Geometry Scoring Without Correspondences
Axel Barroso-Laguna Eric Brachmann Victor Adrian Prisacariu Gabriel J. Brostow Daniyar Turmukhambetov
Camera pose estimation for two-view geometry traditionally relies on RANSAC.
Normally, a multitude of image correspondences leads to a pool of proposed
hypotheses, which are then scored to find a winning model. The inlier count is
generally regarded as a reliable indicator of "consensus". We examine this
scoring heuristic, and find that it favors disappointing models under certain
circumstances. As a remedy, we propose the Fundamental Scoring Network (FSNet),
which infers a score for a pair of overlapping images and any proposed
fundamental matrix. It does not rely on sparse correspondences, but rather
embodies a two-view geometry model through an epipolar attention mechanism that
predicts the pose error of the two images. FSNet can be incorporated into
traditional RANSAC loops. We evaluate FSNet on fundamental and essential matrix
estimation on indoor and outdoor datasets, and establish that FSNet can
successfully identify good poses for pairs of images with few or unreliable
correspondences. Besides, we show that naively combining FSNet with MAGSAC++
scoring approach achieves state of the art results.