%0 Journal Article %A Fischler, Martin A. and Bolles, Robert C. %T Random Sample Consensus: A Paradigm for Model Fitting with Applications to Image Analysis and Automated Cartography %B Communications of the ACM %P 381-395 %V 24 %D 1981 %X A new paradigm, Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC), for fitting a model to experimental data is introduced. RANSAC is capable of interpreting/smoothing data containing a significant percentage of gross errors, and is thus ideally suited for applications in automated image analysis where interpretation is based on the data provided by error-prone feature detectors. A major portion of this paper describes the application of RANSAC to the Location Determination Problem (LDP): Given an image depicting a set of landmarks with know locations, determine that point in space from which the image was obtained. In response to a RANSAC requirement, new results are derived on the minimum number of landmarks needed to obtain a solution, and algorithms are presented for computing these minimum-landmark solutions in closed form. These results provide the basis for an automatic system that can solve the LDP under difficult viewing. %N 6 %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/836.pdf
