Exact Camera Location Recovery by Least Unsquared Deviations

Published in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2018

Recommended citation: Gilad Lerman, Yunpeng Shi, Teng Zhang. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2018.

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Abstract

We establish exact recovery for the Least Unsquared Deviations (LUD) algorithm of Ozyesil and Singer. More precisely, we show that for sufficiently many cameras with given corrupted pairwise directions, where both camera locations and pairwise directions are generated by a special probabilistic model, the LUD algorithm exactly recovers the camera locations with high probability. A similar exact recovery guarantee for camera locations was established for the ShapeFit algorithm by Hand, Lee and Voroninski, but with typically less corruption.