An empirical evaluation of factors influencing camera calibration accuracy using three publicly available techniques

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-67

  Sun, Wei ^a   Cooperstock, Jeremy R ^a,b,c,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^c ACM   (Canada)

^d AES Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy evaluation; Camera calibration; Camera parameters; Coordinate transformations; Distortion models

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CALIBRATION; CAMERA PARAMETERS; COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; DISTORTION MODELS;

CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33645323477     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0014-6     Document Type: Article

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