• DocumentCode
    2084629
  • Title

    Are two rotational flows sufficient to calibrate a smooth non-parametric sensor?

  • Author

    Grossmann, Etienne ; Lee, Eun-Joo ; Hislop, Peter ; Nistér, David ; Stewénius, Henrik

  • Author_Institution
    U. de Montréal
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    17-22 June 2006
  • Firstpage
    1222
  • Lastpage
    1229
  • Abstract
    We present an attempt to determine whether the shape of a generic central-projection camera, such as the eye of an insect or a log-polar camera, can be determined from two motion flows resulting from purely rotational motions with non-collinear axes. Our first contribution is to write the smooth non-parametric calibration problem as a differential equation. It is unclear at present whether this problem has unique solution, up to an orthogonal transformation. Our second contribution is a discretized version of this smooth problem, for which we give a calibration algorithm - a third contribution. Using this algorithm, we explore numerically the properties of the discrete self-calibration problem, giving some insight on the nature of the problem. We show examples of successful self-calibration, but cannot give a definite affirmative answer to the question in the title.
  • Keywords
    Calibration; Cameras; Computer science; Computer vision; Insects; Mathematics; Optical sensors; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Shape; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on
  • ISSN
    1063-6919
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2597-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CVPR.2006.60
  • Filename
    1640889