A mask-based approach for the geometric calibration of thermal-infrared cameras

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1625-1635

  Vidas, Stephen ^a,b   Lakemond, Ruan ^a   Denman, Simon ^a   Fookes, Clinton ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a   Wark, Tim ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; cameras; geometry; infrared (IR) image sensors; IR imaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PATTERNS; CALIBRATION POINTS; CAMERA CALIBRATION; CLUSTERING-BASED ALGORITHMS; END-TO-END SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; HIGH THERMAL; INFRARED IMAGES; LENS DISTORTION; MANUAL INTERVENTION; MAXIMALLY STABLE EXTREMAL REGIONS; MULTIPLE CAMERAS; REPROJECTION ERROR; SOFTWARE TOOLKITS; SOURCE CODES; THERMAL CAMERA; THERMAL-INFRARED;

CAMERAS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; GEOMETRY; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84861196030     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2182851     Document Type: Article

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