Efficient globally optimal consensus maximisation with tree search
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2017
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Chin, T.
Purkait, P.
Eriksson, A.
Suter, D.
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017; 39(4):758-772
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Tat-Jun Chin, Pulak Purkait, Anders Eriksson and David Suter
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Maximum consensus is one of the most popular criteria for robust estimation in computer vision. Despite its widespread use, optimising the criterion is still customarily done by randomised sample-and-test techniques, which do not guarantee optimality of the result. Several globally optimal algorithms exist, but they are too slow to challenge the dominance of randomised methods. Our work aims to change this state of affairs by proposing an efficient algorithm for global maximisation of consensus. Under the framework of LP-type methods, we show how consensus maximisation for a wide variety of vision tasks can be posed as a tree search problem. This insight leads to a novel algorithm based on A* search. We propose efficient heuristic and support set updating routines that enable A* search to efficiently find globally optimal results. On common estimation problems, our algorithm is much faster than previous exact methods. Our work identifies a promising direction for globally optimal consensus maximisation.
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