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access icon free Using vanishing points to estimate parameters of fisheye camera

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Received 04/11/2011, Accepted 20/06/2013, Revised 14/05/2013, Published

This study presents an approach for estimating the fisheye camera parameters using three vanishing points corresponding to three sets of mutually orthogonal parallel lines in one single image. The authors first derive three constraint equations on the elements of the rotation matrix in proportion to the coordinates of the vanishing points. From these constraints, the rotation matrix is calculated under the assumption of the image centre known. The experimental results with synthetic images and real fisheye images validate this method. In contrast to the existing methods, the authors method needs less image information and does not know the three-dimensional reference point coordinates.

Inspec keywords: matrix algebra; cameras; image processing; parameter estimation

Other keywords: synthetic images; single image; constraint equations; parameter estimation; rotation matrix; three-dimensional reference point coordinates; vanishing points; image information; fisheye camera; real fisheye images; mutually orthogonal parallel lines

Subjects: Algebra; Optical, image and video signal processing; Algebra; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Image sensors

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