Riemannian Geometry Approach for Minimizing Distortion and its Applications

Abstract: Given an affine transformation $T$, we define its Fisher distortion $Dist_F(T)$. We show that the Fisher distortion has Riemannian metric structure and provide an algorithm for finding mean distorting transformation -- namely -- for a given set ${T_{i}}{i=1}^N$ of affine transformations, find an affine transformation $T$ that minimize the overall distortion $\sum{i=1}^NDist_F^{2}(T^{-1}T_{i}).$ The mean distorting transformation can be useful in some fields -- in particular, we apply it for rendering affine panoramas.