
Metric Invariants for Camera Calibration
Designing algorithms from algebraic rank analysis
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 4. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-3-8465-0988-3 (ISBN)
Description
Reconstructing a metric structure of a scene from images has been one of the important topics in computer vision. In this book, we focus on a simple diagonal rank-deficient form of a 2D metric invariant, a conic dual to the circular points. By manipulating image features to constrain the simple form algebraically, the metric reconstruction can be achieved. We start from second order curves such as concentric circles or confocal conics to be used as basic features. By simply subtracting them, affine and metric properties of a plane are recovered. The geometric meanings of the resulting subtraction matrices are also investigated. The idea of algebraically manipulating features extend to an ``addition method'' using human recognizable features such as a rectangle. Its parallelism and orthogonality enables us to obtain information of the scene structure. As a generalization, we propose a framework to unify the geometric constraints used in camera calibration and in metric reconstruction. We show that scene constraints can be converted into constraints of cameras, and that a flexible algorithm to metric-reconstruct scenes from images can be developed in the proposed unified framework.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8465-0988-3 (9783846509883)
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Jun-Sik KIM: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2006) from KAIST, South Korea; Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. In So KWEON: Ph.D. in Robotics (1990) from Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Professor at KAIST, South Korea; Director of the P3DigiCar research center; Editorial board member of IJCV.