Efficient Minimal Solvers for Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation in Multi-Camera Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09477v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:36:27 GMT
• Title: Efficient Minimal Solvers for Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation in Multi-Camera Systems
• Abstract summary: Estimating the relative poses of multi-camera systems is a fundamental problem in computer vision.<n>We propose two efficient minimal solvers for estimating the relative poses of multi-camera systems using a novel parameterization.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Estimating the relative poses of multi-camera systems is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with critical applications in autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, existing solutions often suffer from high computational complexity or rely on an excessive number of point correspondences, limiting their real-world applicability. To address these limitations, we propose two efficient minimal solvers for estimating the relative poses of multi-camera systems using a novel parameterization. The first solver leverages the vertical direction prior provided by Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), while the second utilizes the rotation axis direction prior from IMUs. Our methods require only four point correspondences and reduce the problem of multi-camera relative pose estimation to solving a univariate 6th-degree polynomial, a significant improvement over existing approaches, which typically involve 8th-degree polynomials. This reduction in computational complexity and correspondence requirements makes our solvers particularly effective when integrated into RANSAC frameworks, demonstrating strong potential for visual odometry applications. Through rigorous evaluations on synthetic data and the KITTI benchmark, our methods achieved superior computational efficiency and competitive accuracy compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

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