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Issue No.12 - December (2010 vol.32)
pp: 2289-2296
Ciarán Hughes , Valeo Vision Systems, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland
Patrick Denny , Valeo Vision Systems, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland
Martin Glavin , National University of Ireland, Galway
Edward Jones , National University of Ireland, Galway
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we describe a method to photogrammetrically estimate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of fish-eye cameras using the properties of equidistance perspective, particularly vanishing point estimation, with the aim of providing a rectified image for scene viewing applications. The estimated intrinsic parameters are the optical center and the fish-eye lensing parameter, and the extrinsic parameters are the rotations about the world axes relative to the checkerboard calibration diagram.
INDEX TERMS
Fish-eye, calibration, perspective.
CITATION
Ciarán Hughes, Patrick Denny, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones, "Equidistant Fish-Eye Calibration and Rectification by Vanishing Point Extraction", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.32, no. 12, pp. 2289-2296, December 2010, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2010.159
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