Talk

Average degree of the essential variety!

  • Elima Shehu (University of Osnabrück + MPI MiS, Leipzig)
E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal)

Abstract

The essential variety is an algebraic subvariety of dimension 5 in RP3. It encodes the relative pose of two calibrated cameras, where a calibrated camera is a matrix of the form [R,t] with RSO(3) and tR3. Since the degree of this variety is 10, there can only be at most 10 complex solutions. We compute the expected number of real points in the intersection of the essential variety with a random linear space of codimension 5. My aim is to tell you about these computations and our results. This is joint work with Paul Breiding, Samantha Fairchild, and Pierpaola Santarsiero.