A flexible new technique for camera calibration

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1330-1334

  Zhang, Zhengyou ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

2d pattern; Absolute conic; Calibration from planes; Camera calibration; Closed form solution; Flexible plane based calibration; Flexible setup; Lens distortion; Maximum likelihood estimation; Projective mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000879124     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.888718     Document Type: Article

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