README.md

Align two trajectory's timestamps

Given two trajectories from such as ARKit, ARCore and Vicon etc. this code can align the timestamps using NCC or least square method(coming soon)

What we need to do is find the offset $t'$ to maximize this formulation at a series of sample timestamps $t_p$

$$ \arg\max_{t'}\frac{\sum|\log\Delta{q}_V(t_P+t',\tau)|\cdot|\log\Delta{q}_V(t_P+t',\tau)|} {\sqrt{\sum{|\log\Delta{q}_V(t_P+t',\tau)|^2}} \cdot \sqrt{\sum{|\log\Delta{q}_P(t_P,\tau)|^2}}} $$

Trajectory Format

we use tum fromat to record the both of two trajectory

timestamp p.x p.y p.z q.x q.y q.z q.w

Also, it is supported to align the raw gyr data to the Vicon trajectory, the gyr data format is

timestamp RX RY RZ

Usage

mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..
make 
cd ..
./build/ncc ./data/vicon_traj.txt ./data/phone_traj.txt
python plot.py