Absolute orientation with the FOAM algorithm

Version 1.0.0.0 (2.03 KB) by Manolis Lourakis

Efficient Absolute Orientation Solver

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Updated 14 Sep 2017

The function computes the orientation and translation for the transformation between
two corresponding 3D point sets pi and qi so that they are related by qi = R*pi + t
Avoids costly matrix decompositions (e.g. SVD), implementing the following paper:
M. Lourakis: "An Efficient Solution to Absolute Orientation", IAPR/IEEE Int'l.
Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), p. 3816-3819, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 4-8, 2016.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316445722_An_efficient_solution_to_absolute_orientation

Cite As

Manolis Lourakis (2026). Absolute orientation with the FOAM algorithm (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/63926-absolute-orientation-with-the-foam-algorithm), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved January 11, 2026.

MATLAB Release Compatibility

Created with R2013a

Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

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Acknowledgements

Inspired: Absolute orientation with the QUEST algorithm

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Version	Published	Release Notes
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