% By Philip Torr 2002 % copyright Microsoft Corp. %this function calculates the set of 3D points given matches and two projection matrices %for this method to work best the matches must be corrected to lie on the epipolar lines %P-i ith row of the P matrix then %constraints are of the form x p_3^t - p_1 & y p_3^t - p_2 function X = torr_triangulate(matches, m3, P1, P2) %first establish the 4 x 4 matrix J such that J^X = 0 [nr no_matches] = size(matches); x1 = matches(:,1)/m3; y1 = matches(:,2)/m3; x2 = matches(:,3)/m3; y2 = matches(:,4)/m3; for i = 1:nr J(1,1) = P1(3,1) * x1(i) - P1(1,1); J(1,2) = P1(3,2) * x1(i) - P1(1,2); J(1,3) = P1(3,3) * x1(i) - P1(1,3); J(1,4) = P1(3,4) * x1(i) - P1(1,4); J(2,1) = P1(3,1) * y1(i) - P1(2,1); J(2,2) = P1(3,2) * y1(i) - P1(2,2); J(2,3) = P1(3,3) * y1(i) - P1(2,3); J(2,4) = P1(3,4) * y1(i) - P1(2,4); J(3,1) = P2(3,1) * x2(i) - P2(1,1); J(3,2) = P2(3,2) * x2(i) - P2(1,2); J(3,3) = P2(3,3) * x2(i) - P2(1,3); J(3,4) = P2(3,4) * x2(i) - P2(1,4); J(4,1) = P2(3,1) * y2(i) - P2(2,1); J(4,2) = P2(3,2) * y2(i) - P2(2,2); J(4,3) = P2(3,3) * y2(i) - P2(2,3); J(4,4) = P2(3,4) * y2(i) - P2(2,4); X(:,i) = torr_ls(J); end %at the moment this is unnormalized so that chierality can be determined