Decoupled Geometric Parameterization and its Application in Deep Homography Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16599v2
• Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:17:49 GMT
• Title: Decoupled Geometric Parameterization and its Application in Deep Homography Estimation
• Authors: Yao Huang, Si-Yuan Cao, Yaqing Ding, Hao Yin, Shibin Xie, Shuting Wang, Zhijun Fang, Jiachun Wang, Shen Cai, Junchi Yan, Shuhan Shen,
• Abstract summary: Planar homography, with eight degrees of freedom (DOFs), is fundamental in numerous computer vision tasks.<n>This paper presents a novel geometric parameterization of homographies, leveraging the similarity- kernel-similarity decomposition for projective transformations.<n>Our proposed parameterization allows for direct homography estimation through matrix multiplication, eliminating the need for solving a linear system, and achieves performance comparable to the four-corner positional offsets in deep homography estimation.
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• Abstract: Planar homography, with eight degrees of freedom (DOFs), is fundamental in numerous computer vision tasks. While the positional offsets of four corners are widely adopted (especially in neural network predictions), this parameterization lacks geometric interpretability and typically requires solving a linear system to compute the homography matrix. This paper presents a novel geometric parameterization of homographies, leveraging the similarity-kernel-similarity (SKS) decomposition for projective transformations. Two independent sets of four geometric parameters are decoupled: one for a similarity transformation and the other for the kernel transformation. Additionally, the geometric interpretation linearly relating the four kernel transformation parameters to angular offsets is derived. Our proposed parameterization allows for direct homography estimation through matrix multiplication, eliminating the need for solving a linear system, and achieves performance comparable to the four-corner positional offsets in deep homography estimation.

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