Wide-area external multi-camera calibration using vision graphs and virtual calibration object

2008 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kurillo, Gregorij ^a   Li, Zeyu ^a   Bajcsy, Ruzena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epipolar geometry; External camera calibration; Multi camera system; Vision graph

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CAMERA CALIBRATIONS; CAMERA SYSTEMS; COVERAGE AREAS; DIRECT PATHS; EFFICIENT METHODS; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; ERROR PROPAGATIONS; ESSENTIAL MATRIXES; EXTERNAL CALIBRATIONS; EXTERNAL CAMERA CALIBRATION; EXTERNAL-; GLOBAL CALIBRATIONS; IMAGE NOISE ANALYSES; MULTI-CAMERA SYSTEM; OPTIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESSES; PARAMETRIZATION; PATH TRANSFORMATIONS; REPROJECTION ERRORS; SET-UPS; VIRTUAL CALIBRATIONS; WIDE AREAS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 57349177850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSC.2008.4635695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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