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Accurate calibration of stereo cameras for machine vision
Keywords:
Calibration, Camera, Parameter, Vision, MeasurementAbstract
Camera calibration is an important task for machine vision, whose goal is to obtain the internal and external parameters of each camera. With these parameters, the 3D positions of a scene point, which is identified and matched in two stereo images, can be determined by the triangulation theory. This paper presents a new accurate estimation of CCD camera parameters for machine vision. We present a fast technique to estimate the camera center with special arrangement of calibration target and the camera model is aimed at efficient computation of camera parameters considering lens distortion. Built on strict geometry constraint, our calibration method has compensated the error for distortion cased by circular features on calibration target, which gets over the relativity influence of every unknown parameters of traditional calibration way and make the error distributed among the constraint relation of parameters, in order to guarantee the accuracy and consistency of calibration results. Experimental results are provided to show that the calibration accuracy is high.
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[2] Harry Douglas Garner, "Development of a real-time vision based absolute orientation sensor", Ph.D dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.
[3] L. Jong-Soo and J. Yu-Ho, "CCD camera calibrations and projection error analysis", Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. Science and Technology, Korea-Russia, Vol. 2, 2000, pp. 50-55.
[4] R.Y. Tsai, "A versatile camera calibration technique for high-accuracy 3D machine vision metrology using off-the-shelf TV cameras and lenses", IEEE J. Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, No. 4, Aug. 1987, pp. 323-344.
[5] Z.Y. Zhang, "A flexible new technique for camera calibration", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 11, Nov. 2000, pp.1330-1334.
[6] J. Heikkilä, "Geometric camera calibration using circular control points", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 10, Oct. 2000, pp. 1066-1077.
[7] R.I. Hartley, "Self-calibration from multiple views with a rotating camera", Proc. 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, May 1994, pp. 471-478.
[8] D. Stewart, "A platform with six degree of freedom", Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., Vol. 180, No. 5, 1965, pp. 371-378.
[9] J. Heikkilä, "A four-step camera calibration procedure with implicit image correction", Proc. 1997 IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1997, pp. 1106-1112.
[10] R.G. Wilson and S.A. Shafer, "What is the center of the image", IEEE J. Optical Society of America, Vol. 11, No. 11, Nov. 1994, pp. 2946-2955.
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2004-10-01
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“Accurate calibration of stereo cameras for machine vision”, JCS&T, vol. 4, no. 03, pp. p. 147–151, Oct. 2004, Accessed: Jul. 08, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/article/view/893
