Unassisted 3D camera calibration

Kalin Atanassov; Vikas Ramachandra; James Nash; Sergio R. Goma

doi:10.1117/12.909616

23 February 2012 Unassisted 3D camera calibration

Kalin Atanassov, Vikas Ramachandra, James Nash, Sergio R. Goma

Proceedings Volume 8288, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIII; 828808 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909616
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

With the rapid growth of 3D technology, 3D image capture has become a critical part of the 3D feature set on mobile phones. 3D image quality is affected by the scene geometry as well as on-the-device processing. An automatic 3D system usually assumes known camera poses accomplished by factory calibration using a special chart. In real life settings, pose parameters estimated by factory calibration can be negatively impacted by movements of the lens barrel due to shaking, focusing, or camera drop. If any of these factors displaces the optical axes of either or both cameras, vertical disparity might exceed the maximum tolerable margin and the 3D user may experience eye strain or headaches. To make 3D capture more practical, one needs to consider unassisted (on arbitrary scenes) calibration. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that relies on detection and matching of keypoints between left and right images. Frames containing erroneous matches, along with frames with insufficiently rich keypoint constellations, are detected and discarded. Roll, pitch yaw , and scale differences between left and right frames are then estimated. The algorithm performance is evaluated in terms of the remaining vertical disparity as compared to the maximum tolerable vertical disparity.

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Kalin Atanassov, Vikas Ramachandra, James Nash, and Sergio R. Goma "Unassisted 3D camera calibration", Proc. SPIE 8288, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIII, 828808 (23 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909616

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