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
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