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15 - The Trifocal Tensor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2011

Richard Hartley
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Andrew Zisserman
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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The trifocal tensor plays an analogous role in three views to that played by the fundamental matrix in two. It encapsulates all the (projective) geometric relations between three views that are independent of scene structure.

We begin this chapter with a simple introduction to the main geometric and algebraic properties of the trifocal tensor. A formal development of the trifocal tensor and its properties involves the use of tensor notation. To start, however, it is convenient to use standard vector and matrix notation, thus obtaining some geometric insight into the trifocal tensor without the additional burden of dealing with a (possibly) unfamiliar notation. The use of tensor notation will therefore be deferred until section 15.2.

The three principal geometric properties of the tensor are introduced in section 15.1. These are the homography between two of the views induced by a plane back-projected from a line in the other view; the relations between image correspondences for points and lines which arise from incidence relations in 3-space; and the retrieval of the fundamental and camera matrices from the tensor.

The tensor may be used to transfer points from a correspondence in two views to the corresponding point in a third view. The tensor also applies to lines, and the image of a line in one view may be computed from its corresponding images in two other views. Transfer is described in section 15.3.

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Print publication year: 2004

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  • The Trifocal Tensor
  • Richard Hartley, Australian National University, Canberra, Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
  • Book: Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
  • Online publication: 25 January 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811685.021
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  • Richard Hartley, Australian National University, Canberra, Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
  • Book: Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811685.021
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  • The Trifocal Tensor
  • Richard Hartley, Australian National University, Canberra, Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
  • Book: Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
  • Online publication: 25 January 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811685.021
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