Rotational alignment of imu-camera systems with 1-point ransac

Abstract

In this paper we present a minimal solution for the rotational alignment of IMU-camera systems based on a homography formulation. The image correspondences between two views are related by homography when the motion of the camera can be effectively approximated as a pure rotation. By exploiting the rotational angles of the features obtained by e.g. the SIFT detector, we compute the rotational alignment of IMU-camera systems with only 1 feature correspondence. The novel minimal case solution allows us to cope with feature mismatches efficiently and robustly within a random sample consensus RANSAC scheme. Our method is evaluated on both synthetic and real scene data, demonstrating that our method is suited for the rotational alignment of IMU-camera systems.