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Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University volume45
2011-01 発行

Hyper Least Squares and Its Applications

Rangrajan, Prasanna
Sugaya, Yasuyuki
Publication Date
2011-01
Abstract
We present a new least squares (LS) estimator, called “HyperLS”, specifically designed for parameter estimation in computer vision applications. It minimizes the algebraic distance under a special scale normalization, which is derived by rigorous error analysis in such a way that statistical bias is removed up to second order noise terms. Numerical experiments suggest that our HyperLS is far superior to the standard LS and comparable in accuracy to maximum likelihood (ML), which is known to produce highly accurate results in image applications but may fail to converge if poorly initialized. Our HyperLS is a perfect candidate for ML initialization. In addition, we discuss how image-based inference problems have different characteristics form conventional statistical applications, with a view to serving as a bridge between mathematicians and computer engineers.
ISSN
1349-6115
NCID
AA12014085
NAID