Abstract
For fitting an ellipse to a point sequence, ML (maximum likelihood) has been regarded as having the highest accuracy. In this pa- per, we demonstrate the existence of a “hyperaccurate” method which outperforms ML. This is made possible by error analysis of ML followed by subtraction of high-order bias terms. Since ML nearly achieves the theoretical accuracy bound (the KCR lower bound), the resulting im- provement is very small. Nevertheless, our analysis has theoretical sig- nificance, illuminating the relationship between ML and the KCR lower bound.