# Deterministic consensus maximization with biconvex programming

@article{Cai2018DeterministicCM,
title={Deterministic consensus maximization with biconvex programming},
author={Zhipeng Cai and Tat-Jun Chin and Huu Le and David Suter},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2018},
volume={abs/1807.09436}
}
• Published 25 July 2018
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Consensus maximization is one of the most widely used robust fitting paradigms in computer vision, and the development of algorithms for consensus maximization is an active research topic. In this paper, we propose an efficient deterministic optimization algorithm for consensus maximization. Given an initial solution, our method conducts a deterministic search that forcibly increases the consensus of the initial solution. We show how each iteration of the update can be formulated as an instance…
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