Is it possible to constrain an ellipsoid knowing projected points coordinates on image plane?

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Simple Case

If we know the 3D position of the points and know they are on an ellipsoid Q, we could directly use the equation: $X^TQX=0$, where Q is the 4x4 matrix.

Question

I'm wondering is it possible to build a constraint only use the information on image planes. If we know the projected points coordinates $[u_1, u_2, ...]$ of points $[X_1, X_2, ...]$, is there an equation that: $f(u_1, u_2, ...) = y(Q, P)$, where P is the projection Matrix.

Maybe we could use the distance between two points, crossratios between several distances and so on?

Thank you so much.