Clarification of PnP variants

asked 2018-06-15 04:16:47 -0600

malharjajoo
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updated 2018-06-15 04:18:42 -0600

Hi,

Recently I have been trying out the various PnP algorithms that are part of the openCV library, such as:

P3P
EPNP
ITERATIVE
UPNP
DLS

After manually annotating a few images for the 2D correspondences (like in this tutorial), I ran into a few issues and hence

My question:

UPNP , EPNP and DLS gave me the same result for all images I used. I think that UPNP and EPNP may have same result since UPNP is like EPNP for uncalibrated cameras (while my camera is calibrated), but I don't understand why DLS is giving me the same result.
Can P3P algorithm accept more than 4 inputs ? Currently openCV throws an assertion error if I pass in >4 points using the P3P flag to the cv::solvePnP() method.

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answered 2018-06-15 16:50:08 -0600

Eduardo
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See here and here
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Hi, thanks for pointing those out. I do recall now having read that somehwere ( so annoying !) but I came across this thesis paper ( see this) that claimed that UPNP method was successfully included into the openCV library ... and hence I thought that at least the UPNP method would work.

Is there some other way to test the variants of the PnP algorithm ?

malharjajoo ( 2018-06-15 17:21:59 -0600 )edit

If you wanted to, you could go into solvepnp.cpp and uncomment the branches for UPNP and DLS. I have tried the DLS branch, and it didn't work for me though.