Focal length calibration from two views: Method and analysis of singular cases

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-95

  Sturm, P ^a   Cheng, Z L ^b   Chen, P C Y ^b   Poo, A N ^b  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Camera calibration; Kruppa's equations

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; CAMERA CALIBRATION; FOCAL LENGTH CALIBRATION; KRUPPA'S EQUATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 18944376398     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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