Direct Bundle Adjustment for 3D Image Fusion with Application to Transesophageal Echocardiography

Zhehua Mao,Liang Zhao,Shoudong Huang,Yiting Fan,Alex Pui-Wai Lee,Zhehua Mao,Liang Zhao,Shoudong Huang,Yiting Fan,Alex Pui-Wai Lee

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for fusing a sequence of 3D images, named as Direct Bundle Adjustment (DBA). This algorithm simultaneously optimizes the global pose parameters of image frames and the intensity values of the fused global image using the 3D image data directly (without extracting features from the images). This one-step 3D image fusion approach is achieved by formulating...