Homography estimation from correspondences of local elliptical features

We propose a novel unified approach for homography estimation from two or more correspondences of local elliptical features. The method finds a homography defined by first-order Taylor expansions at two (or more) points. The approximations are affine transformations that are constrained by the ellipse-to-ellipse correspondences. Unlike methods based on projective invariants of conics, the proposed method generates only a single homography model per pair of ellipse correspondences. We show experimentally, that the proposed method generates models of precision comparable or better than the state-of-the-art at lower computational costs.