A stratified approach for camera calibration using spheres

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 305-316

  Wong, Kwan Yee Kenneth ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^b   Chen, Zhihu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Absolute dual quadric; camera calibration; epipolar tangent; sphere

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; ABSOLUTE DUAL QUADRIC; CAMERA CALIBRATION; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; EPIPOLAR TANGENT; EPIPOLAR TANGENTS; FRONTIER POINT; FUNDAMENTAL MATRIX; HIGH PRECISION; IMAGE POINTS; PLANE AT INFINITY; POINT FEATURES; SIMPLE METHOD; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; RECOVERY;

SPHERES;

EID: 79551676580     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2063035     Document Type: Article

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