“…Therefore, the images captured by moving RS cameras are subject to distortions such as wobble and skew, which defeat the classical GS geometric model that is usually assumed in 3D computer vision. In the past decade, many methods have been designed to fit RS camera problems, such as absolute pose (AP) (Ait-Aider et al 2006, 2007Ait-Aider and Berry 2009;Saurer et al 2015), 3D reconstruction from stereo rigs (Ait-Aider and Berry 2009;Saurer et al 2016Saurer et al , 2013, bundle adjustment for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) (Hedborg et al 2011(Hedborg et al , 2012, relative pose estimation (Dai et al 2016), dense matching (Kim et al 2016;Saurer et al 2016) and degeneracy understanding (Albl et al 2016b;Ito and Okatani 2017). In this paper, we bring a new approach to AP and SfM, two classical and fundamental problems in 3D vision, for the case of RS images.…”