Abstract
The synchronization problem over the special orthogonal group SO(d) consists of estimating a set of unknown rotations R1, R2,... , Rn from noisy measurements of a subset of their pairwise ratios R−i1Rj. The problem has found applications in computer vision, computer graphics and sensor network localization, among others. Its least squares solution can be approximated by either spectral relaxation or semidefinite programming followed by a rounding procedure, analogous to the approximation algorithms of Max-Cut. The contribution of this paper is three-fold: first, we introduce a robust penalty function involving the sum of unsquared deviations and derive a relaxation that leads to a convex optimization problem; secondly, we apply the alternating direction method to minimize the penalty function. Finally, under a specific model of the measurement noise and for both complete and random measurement graphs, we prove that the rotations are exactly and stably recovered, exhibiting a phase transition behavior in terms of the proportion of noisy measurements. Numerical simulations confirm the phase transition behavior for our method as well as its improved accuracy compared with existing methods.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 145-193 |
Number of pages | 49 |
Journal | Information and Inference |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Analysis
- Applied Mathematics
- Statistics and Probability
- Numerical Analysis
Keywords
- Alternating direction method
- Least unsquared deviation
- Semidefinite relaxation
- Synchronization of rotations