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Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-you-can-map-your-pillow-fort dept.

New submitter drom writes "Google released a key part of their Street View pipeline as open source on Tuesday: Ceres Solver. It's a large-scale nonlinear least squares minimizer. What does that mean? It's a way to fit a model (like expected position of a car) to data (like GPS positions or accelerometers). The library is completely general and works for many problems. It offers state of the art performance for bundle adjustment problems typical in 3D reconstruction, among others."

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  1. Google+ account? by mikhela · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why does it ask me to create Google+ account with my real name?

  2. Re:Nonlinear least squares for dummies? by dvh.tosomja · · Score: -1, Troll

    > Can any math pro explain what practical uses solving nonlinear least squares equations have?

    For illiterates like you, there is video in the first link mentioned in the summary

  3. Re:Extra features by mcgrew · · Score: 1, Troll

    Fanboys get mod points sometimes. As do employees. Hell, I've been modded down for mentioning Sony's evils in a story about Sony.

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