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+%% 2009-2011, David Legland <david.legland@grignon.inra.fr>
+%% 2011 Adapted to Octave by Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
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+%% -*- texinfo -*-
+%% @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{T} = } fitAffineTransform2d (@var{pts1}, @var{pts2})
+%% Fit an affine transform using two point sets.
+%%
+%% Example
+%%
+%% @example
+%% N = 10;
+%% pts = rand(N, 2)*10;
+%% trans = createRotation(3, 4, pi/4);
+%% pts2 = transformPoint(pts, trans);
+%% pts3 = pts2 + randn(N, 2)*2;
+%% fitted = fitAffineTransform2d(pts, pts2)
+%%@end example
+%%
+%% @seealso{transforms2d}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function trans = fitAffineTransform2d(pts1, pts2)
+
+ % number of points
+ N = size(pts1, 1);
+
+ % main matrix of the problem
+ A = [...
+ pts1(:,1) pts1(:,2) ones(N,1) zeros(N, 3) ; ...
+ zeros(N, 3) pts1(:,1) pts1(:,2) ones(N,1) ];
+
+ % conditions initialisations
+ B = [pts2(:,1) ; pts2(:,2)];
+
+ % compute coefficients using least square
+ coefs = A\B;
+
+ % format to a matrix
+ trans = [coefs(1:3)' ; coefs(4:6)'; 0 0 1];
+
+endfunction
+
+