Camera Calibration
Sebastian Thrun, Gary Bradski, Daniel RussakoffStanford CS223B Computer Vision
http://robots.stanford.edu/cs223b
(with material from David Forsyth, James Rehg and Allen Hanson)
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A Quiz
How Many Flat Calibration Targets are Needed for Calibration? 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 10:
How Many Corner Points do we need in Total?
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Example Calibration Pattern
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Experiment 1: Parallel Board
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Experiment 2: Tilted Board
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Homogeneous Coordinates
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Summary Parameters
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Q: Can We recover all Intrinsic Params?
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Summary Parameters, Revisited
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Calibration a la Trucco
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Q: How Many Images Do We Need?
Assumption: K images with M corners each 4+6K parameters 2KM constraints 2KM 4+6K M>3 and K 2/(M-3) 2 images with 4 points, but will 1 images with 5
points work? No, since points cannot be co-planar!
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Nonlinear Distortions
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