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findFundamentalMat not correctly filtering outliers

After detecting keypoints and matching them between two images, I run findFundamentalMat to estimate the Fundamental matrix and also filter the outliers. When I draw the matches using the mask I get from findFundamentalMat, there is sometimes some matches that are not filtered out eventhough they clearly don't fit in the transform.

Here is an example of a good filtering (Left image from robot's camre, right image static): image description

But without moving the robot, the matches change a lot from one picture to the next (due to the flickering in the light?) And often there is one wrong match or two that are left. I suspect those matches to cause the inconsistency in my estimated Fundamental matrix which can look totally different from one image to the next, even without moving the robot.

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Here the yellow and blue line clearly don't fit to the model. Could they cause the fundamental matrix to go totally wrong?