• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.746-754
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• 2008

This paper proposes a method to detect calibration patterns for accurate camera calibration under complicated backgrounds and uneven lighting conditions of industrial fields. Required to measure object dimensions, the preprocessing of camera calibration must be able to extract calibration points from a calibration pattern. However, industrial fields for visual inspection rarely provide the proper lighting conditions for camera calibration of a measurement system. In this paper, a probabilistic criterion is proposed to detect a local set of calibration points, which would guide the extraction of other calibration points in a cluttered background under irregular lighting conditions. If only a local part of the calibration pattern can be seen, input data can be extracted for camera calibration. In an experiment using real images, we verified that the method can be applied to camera calibration for poor quality images obtained under uneven illumination and cluttered background.

• 센서학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2004

Camera calibration is an important and fundamental procedure for the application of a vision sensor to 3D problems. Recently many camera calibration methods have been proposed particularly in the area of robot vision. However, the reliability of data used in calibration has been seldomly considered in spite of its importance. In addition, a camera model can not guarantee good results consistently in various conditions. This paper proposes methods to overcome such uncertainty problems of data and camera models as we often encounter them in practical camera calibration steps. By the use of the RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm, few data having excessive magnitudes of errors are excluded. Artificial neural networks combined in a two-step structure are trained to compensate for the result by a calibration method of a particular model in a given condition. The proposed methods are useful because they can be employed additionally to most existing camera calibration techniques if needed. We applied them to a linear camera calibration method and could get improved results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.487-493
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• 1998

Camera calibration is the process of determining the coordinate relationship between a camera image and its real world space. Accurate calibration of a camera is necessary for the applications that involve quantitative measurement of camera images. However, if the camera plane is parallel or near parallel to the calibration board on which 2 dimensional objects are defined(this is called "ill-conditioned"), existing solution procedures are not well applied. In this paper, we propose a neural network-based approach to camera calibration for 2D images formed by a mono-camera or a pair of cameras. Multi-layer perceptrons are developed to transform the coordinates of each image point to the world coordinates. The validity of the approach is tested with data points which cover the whole 2D space concerned. Experimental results for both mono-camera and stereo-camera cases indicate that the proposed approach is comparable to Tsai's method［8］. Especially for the stereo camera case, the approach works better than the Tsai's method as the angle between the camera optical axis and the Z-axis increases. Therefore, we believe the approach could be an alternative solution procedure for the ill -conditioned camera calibration.libration.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.250-255
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• 2003

The position of a 3-dimensional(3D) point can be measured by using calibrated stereo camera. To obtain more accurate measurement ,more accurate camera calibration is required. There are many existing methods to calibrate camera. The simple linear methods are usually not accurate due to nonlinear lens distortion. The nonlinear methods are accurate more than linear method, but it increase computational cost and good initial guess is needed. The multi step methods need to know some camera parameters of used camera. Recent years, these explicit model based camera calibration work with the development of more precise camera models involving correction of lens distortion. But these explicit model based camera calibration have disadvantages. So implicit camera calibration methods have been derived. One of the popular implicit camera calibration method is to use neural network. In this paper, we propose implicit stereo camera calibration method for 3D reconstruction using support vector machine. SVM can learn the relationship between 3D coordinate and image coordinate, and it shows the robust property with the presence of noise and lens distortion, results of simulation are shown in section 4.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1082-1095
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• 2019

Camera calibration is an important part of machine vision and close-range photogrammetry. Since current calibration methods fail to obtain ideal internal and external camera parameters with limited computing resources on mobile terminals efficiently, this paper proposes an improved fast camera calibration method for mobile terminals. Based on traditional camera calibration method, the new method introduces two-order radial distortion and tangential distortion models to establish the camera model with nonlinear distortion items. Meanwhile, the nonlinear least square L-M algorithm is used to optimize parameters iteration, the new method can quickly obtain high-precise internal and external camera parameters. The experimental results show that the new method improves the efficiency and precision of camera calibration. Terminals simulation experiment on PC indicates that the time consuming of parameter iteration reduced from 0.220 seconds to 0.063 seconds (0.234 seconds on mobile terminals) and the average reprojection error reduced from 0.25 pixel to 0.15 pixel. Therefore, the new method is an ideal mobile terminals camera calibration method which can expand the application range of 3D reconstruction and close-range photogrammetry technology on mobile terminals.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권9호
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• pp.1270-1275
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• 2013

A lot of research about camera calibration and lens distortion for wide-angle lens has been made. Especially, calibration for fish-eye lens which has 180 degree FOV(field of view) or above is more tricky, so existing research employed a huge calibration pattern or even 3D pattern. And it is important that calibration parameters (such as distortion coefficients) are suitably initialized to get accurate calibration results. It can be achieved by using manufacturer information or lease-square method for relatively narrow FOV(135, 150 degree) lens. In this paper, without any previous manufacturer information, camera calibration and barrel undistortion for fish-eye lens with over 180 degree FOV are achieved by only using one calibration pattern image. We applied QR decomposition for initialization and Regularization for optimization. With the result of experiment, we verified that our algorithm can achieve camera calibration and image undistortion successfully.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2007

This paper presents a camera calibration method using several images for three dimensional measurement applications such as stereo systems, mobile robots, and visual inspection systems in factories. Conventional calibration methods that use single image suffer from errors related to reference point extraction in image, lens distortion, and numerical analysis of nonlinear optimization. The camera parameter values obtained from images of same camera is not same even though we use same calibration method. The camera parameters that are obtained from several images of different view for a calibration target is usaully not same with large error values and we can not assume a special probabilistic distribution when we estimate the parameter values. In this paper, the median value of camera parameters from several images is used to improve estimation of the camera values in an iterative step with nonlinear optimization. The proposed method is proved by experiments using real images.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.413-418
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 기존에 사용한 물리적 카메라 모델 대신 퍼지 모델을 사용한 새로운 카메라 보정 방식을 제안한다. 카메라 보정은 카메라의 영상 좌표계와 실제 환경이 가지는 좌표계와의 관계를 규정하는 것으로, 퍼지 모델을 이용하는 방법은 기존의 방법에서 이용했던 물리적 변수들을 설정할 수는 없지만 카메라 보정의 목적인 카메라 좌표계와 실제 환경 좌표계와의 관계를 별다른 제약없이 규정할 수 있으므로 매우 간단하고 효율적인 카메라 보정 방법이다. 실제 실험을 통해 얻은 실공간상의 하나의 보정면 좌표에 대해 퍼지 모델링 방법을 이용하여 3차원 실 공간 좌표 및 2차원 영상좌표 예측을 통해 제안한 방법의 유효성을 보인다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.137-148
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 영상기반 파노라믹 3D 가상 환경 (Virtual Environment: VE) 생성을 위해 회전하는 다수의 멀티뷰 카메라를 위한 캘리브레이션 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로, 카메라 캘리브레이션 알고리즘은 카메라와 캘리브레이션 패턴 사이의 이 멀어질수록 획득되는 카메라 파라미터의 정확도가 상당히 저하되어 파노라마 영상 제작에는 부적합하다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 멀티뷰 카메라의 렌즈간 그리고 회전하는 다수의 멀티뷰 카메라간의 기하학적인 상관 위치 관계를 이용하여 정확도를 높인다. 우선, Tsai의 캘리브레이션 알고리즘을 적용하여 획득된 카메라 파라미터를 카메라 렌즈간의 사전 기하 정보와 비교하여 그 오차에 기반한 인트라 카메라 캘리브레이션 (Intra-camera Calibration)을 수행한다. 그리고 가상 공간에 역투영된 3D point cloud에 ICP 알고리즘을 적용하여 인터 카메라 캘리브레이션 (Inter-camera Calibration)을 수행한다. 이를 확장하여, 다수의 카메라를 회전시켜 획득된 3D point cloud에 대해 기준 카메라의 위치를 중심으로 인터 카메라 캘리브레이션을 연속적으로 수행함으로써 회전하는 다수의 멀티뷰 카메라에 대한 캘리브레이션을 수행한다. 이와 같은 캘리브레이션 방법을 통해 중에서도 비교적 개선된 카메라 파라미터를 획득할 수 있기 때문에 파노라믹 3D 가상 환경을 생성하기 위한 정합과정에 사용할 수 있다. 또한, 실시간 3D 객체 추적 및 AR 응용 시스템 등의 다양한 AR 응용분야에 활용될 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2923-2925
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• 1999

The objective of camera calibration is to determine the internal optical characteristics of camera and 3D position and orientation of camera with respect to the real world. Calibration procedure applicable to general purpose cameras and lenses. The general method to revise the accuracy rate of calibration is using mathematical distortion of lens. The effective og calibration show big difference in proportion to distortion of camera lens. In this paper, we propose the method which calibration distortion model by using neural network. The neural network model implicity contains all the distortion model. We can predict the high accuracy of calibration method proposed in this paper. Neural network can set properly the distortion model which has difficulty to estimate exactly in general method. The performance of the proposed neural network approach is compared with the well-known Tsai's two stage method in terms of calibration errors. The results show that the proposed approach gives much more stable and acceptabke calibration error over Tsai's two stage method regardless of camera resolution and camera angle.