Reconstructing rotations and rigid body motions from exact point correspondences through reflections
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| Publication date | 2011 |
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| Book title | Guide to Geometric Algebra in Practice |
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| Pages (from-to) | 63-78 |
| Publisher | Springer |
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| Abstract |
We describe a new algorithm to reconstruct a rigid body motion from point correspondences. The algorithm works by constructing a series of reflections which align the points with their correspondences one by one. This is naturally and efficiently implemented in the conformal model of geometric algebra, where the resulting transformation is represented by a versor. As a direct result of this algorithm, we also present a very compact and fast formula to compute a quaternion from two vector correspondences, a surprisingly elementary result which appears to be new. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-811-9_4 |
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