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Fischler and Bolles: random sample consensus

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Computer vision · ALGORITHM

Reference score130,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Introduced iterative random minimal-subset model fitting and consensus selection.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1981 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb earlier robust statistics, every later RANSAC variant, downstream vision systems or performance outside the paper's stated models and experiments.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1981 Communications of the ACM paper. It does not absorb earlier robust statistics, every later RANSAC variant, downstream vision systems or performance outside the paper's stated models and experiments.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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