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Geometric Calibration

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Calibration; Calibration of Projective Cameras; Camera Calibration

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Geometric calibration is the process of determining the geometric property of a camera such as its intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. It is often referred to as simply camera calibration in computer vision. The reader is referred to entry Camera Calibration for a discussion on other camera calibration tasks.

Background

Much work has been done, starting in the photogrammetry community (see [1, 2] to cite a few) and more recently in computer vision ([3–10] to cite a few). According to the dimension of the calibration objects, we can classify those techniques roughly into four categories.

  • 3D reference object-based calibration. Camera calibration is performed by observing a calibration object whose geometry in 3-D space is known with very good precision. Calibration can be done very efficiently [11]. The calibration object usually consists of two or three planes orthogonal to each other....

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  1. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

    Zhengyou Zhang

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  1. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsushi Ikeuchi

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Zhang, Z. (2014). Geometric Calibration. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_167

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