Absolute Orientation

Computes the transformation to register two corresponding 3D point sets.

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Christian Wengert (2026). Absolute Orientation (https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22422-absolute-orientation), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: Absolute Orientation - Horn's method

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MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.3.0

Based on Bryan Murawski's comments, I reviewed the computation of the residual error. Indeed, it seemed a bit strange, I thus changed the computation a bit so that it reflects the overall error of the transformation.

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1.2.0

Missing functions added

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1.1.0

Update, included the missing function crossprodQuaternion.
Sorry for that

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1.0.0

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