Journal of Sensor Science and Technology (센서학회지)

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Camera Calibration when the Accuracies of Camera Model and Data Are Uncertain

카메라 모델과 데이터의 정확도가 불확실한 상황에서의 카메라 보정

  • Do, Yong-Tae (School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University)
  • 도용태 (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Published : 2004.01.30
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Abstract

Camera calibration is an important and fundamental procedure for the application of a vision sensor to 3D problems. Recently many camera calibration methods have been proposed particularly in the area of robot vision. However, the reliability of data used in calibration has been seldomly considered in spite of its importance. In addition, a camera model can not guarantee good results consistently in various conditions. This paper proposes methods to overcome such uncertainty problems of data and camera models as we often encounter them in practical camera calibration steps. By the use of the RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm, few data having excessive magnitudes of errors are excluded. Artificial neural networks combined in a two-step structure are trained to compensate for the result by a calibration method of a particular model in a given condition. The proposed methods are useful because they can be employed additionally to most existing camera calibration techniques if needed. We applied them to a linear camera calibration method and could get improved results.

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