Estimate 2D transformation between two sets of points using RANSAC

Question

As I know, OpenCV uses RANSAC in order to solve the problem of findHomography and it returns some useful parameters like the homograph_mask.

However, if I want to estimate just 2D transformation which means an Affine Matrix, is there a way to use the same methodology of findHomography which uses RANSAC and return that mask ?

Answer 1

You can directly use estimateAffinePartial2D : https://docs.opencv.org/4.0.0/d9/d0c/group__calib3d.html#gad767faff73e9cbd8b9d92b955b50062d

cv::Mat cv::estimateAffinePartial2D (   
    InputArray  from,
    InputArray  to,
    OutputArray     inliers = noArray(),
    int     method = RANSAC,
    double  ransacReprojThreshold = 3,
    size_t  maxIters = 2000,
    double  confidence = 0.99,
    size_t  refineIters = 10 
)   

for example :

        src_pts = np.float32([pic1.key_points[m.queryIdx].pt for m in matches]).reshape(-1, 1, 2)
        dst_pts = np.float32([pic2.key_points[m.trainIdx].pt for m in matches]).reshape(-1, 1, 2)

        # Find the transformation between points, standard RANSAC
        transformation_matrix, mask = cv2.findHomography(src_pts, dst_pts, cv2.RANSAC, 5.0)

        # Compute a rigid transformation (without depth, only scale + rotation + translation) and RANSAC
        transformation_rigid_matrix, rigid_mask = cv2.estimateAffinePartial2D(src_pts, dst_pts)