Differential 6-DOF Pose Estimation with Provable First-Order Immunity to Camera Calibration Errors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04673v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:36:04 GMT
• Title: Differential 6-DOF Pose Estimation with Provable First-Order Immunity to Camera Calibration Errors
• Abstract summary: Conventional 3D-2D methods estimate absolute camera poses independently each time and recover platform motion through camera-to-platform poses.<n>We present a differential pose estimation method that directly recovers platform motion from inter-frame image displacements and known 3D control points.<n>We prove that extrinsic errors cancel exactly, while rotational errors induce a bounded perturbation determined by calibration error, motion, magnitude and observation geometry.
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• Abstract: Accurate six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, autonomous systems, and structural displacement monitoring. Conventional 3D-2D methods estimate absolute camera poses independently at each time and recover platform motion through camera-to-platform extrinsics, making them sensitive to extrinsic calibration errors, especially for micromotion. We present a differential pose estimation method that directly recovers platform motion from inter-frame image displacements and known 3D control points. By differencing perspective projection equations, using a depth-invariance approximation, and modeling motion on SE(3), the method avoids independent absolute-pose estimation and supports both monocular and multi-camera systems. We prove that translational extrinsic errors cancel exactly, while rotational errors induce a bounded perturbation determined by calibration error, motion magnitude, and observation geometry. We also derive generic observability conditions, a Cramer-Rao lower bound, and a bias-eliminated consistent estimator, and characterize the validity limits of the approximations. Extensive synthetic and real-world experiments establish a new state of the art for 6-DOF platform micromotion estimation, outperforming representative PnP and generalized-PnP methods in accuracy, calibration robustness, and computational efficiency. With five control points and 0.5-pixel image noise, the monocular solver obtains a combined pitch-yaw rotation RMSE of 10.09 arcsec, a translation RMSE of 3.70 mm, and a runtime of 0.34 ms. The binocular solver achieves a rotation RMSE of 10.58 arcsec, a translation RMSE of 3.91 mm, and a runtime of 0.27 ms. Code will be released upon publication at https://github.com/zyoungszu/pami2026.

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