Closed-form Bayesian homography estimation from noisy point correspondences

arXiv:2609.15227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While homographies are fundamental to many computer vision tasks, the majority of conventional estimation techniques provide only point estimates without directly quantifying uncertainty introduced by noisy observations. Uncertainty, though, propagates to subsequent processing steps such as camera calibration and 3D reconstruction and is particularly relevant in safety-critical and socially relevant fields including medical imaging, autonomous driving, and defense. We present a fast Bayesian formulation for homography estimation from point correspondences that explicitly incorporates measurement uncertainty and prior knowledge while providing a posterior distribution over the homography parameters. A closed-form solution of the posterior mean of the homography is derived in homogeneous coordinates and supplemented by an iterative Bayesian approach to handle non-linearities. Synthetic experiments demonstrate the applicability to projective transformations and show improved estimation accuracy over DLT under varying noise conditions. Image stitching experiments further demonstrate applicability to real image correspondences while additionally providing uncertainty information.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-15