• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.349-356
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• 2016

This study investigates two camera self-calibration approaches, on-site self-calibration and laboratorial self-calibration, both of which are based on self-calibration theory and implemented by using a commercial photogrammetric solution, Agisoft PhotoScan. On-site self-calibration implements camera self-calibration and aerial triangulation by using the same aerial photos. Laboratorial self-calibration implements camera self-calibration by using photos captured onto a patterned target displayed on a digital panel, then conducts aerial triangulation by using the aerial photos. Aerial photos are captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle, and target photos are captured onto a 27in LCD monitor and a 47in LCD TV in two experiments. Calibration parameters are estimated by the two approaches and errors of aerial triangulation are analyzed. Results reveal that on-site self-calibration excels laboratorial self-calibration in terms of vertical accuracy. By contrast, laboratorial self-calibration obtains better horizontal accuracy if photos are captured at a greater distance from the target by using a larger display panel.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.752-757
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• 2003

Recently, 3D structure recovery through self-calibration of camera has been actively researched. Traditional calibration algorithm requires known 3D coordinates of the control points while self-calibration only requires the corresponding points of images, thus it has more flexibility in real application. In general, self-calibration algorithm results in the nonlinear optimization problem using constraints from the intrinsic parameters of the camera. Thus, it requires initial value for the nonlinear minimization. Traditional approaches get the initial values assuming they have the same intrinsic parameters while they are dealing with the situation where the intrinsic parameters of the camera may change. In this paper, we propose new initialization method using the minimum 2 images. Proposed method is based on the assumption that the least violation of the camera’s intrinsic parameter gives more stable initial value. Synthetic and real experiment shows this result.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.183-190
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• 2021

Tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) is a widely used method that measures a three-dimensional (3D) flow field by reconstructing camera images into voxel images. In 3D measurements, the setting and calibration of the camera's mapping function significantly impact the obtained results. In this study, a camera self-calibration technique is applied to tomographic PIV to reduce the occurrence of errors arising from such functions. The measured 3D particles are superimposed on the image to create a disparity map. Camera self-calibration is performed by reflecting the error of the disparity map to the center value of the particles. Vortex ring synthetic images are generated and the developed algorithm is applied. The optimal result is obtained by applying self-calibration once when the center error is less than 1 pixel and by applying self-calibration 2-3 times when it was more than 1 pixel; the maximum recovery ratio is 96%. Further self-correlation did not improve the results. The algorithm is evaluated by performing an actual rotational flow experiment, and the optimal result was obtained when self-calibration was applied once, as shown in the virtual image result. Therefore, the developed algorithm is expected to be utilized for the performance improvement of 3D flow measurements.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2018

This paper presents a method for accurate camera self-calibration based on SIFT Feature Detection and image quality assessment. We performed image quality assessment to select high quality images for the camera self-calibration process. We defined high quality images as those that contain little or no blur, and have maximum contrast among images captured within a short period. The image quality assessment includes blur detection and contrast assessment. Blur detection is based on the statistical analysis of energy and standard deviation of high frequency components of the images using Discrete Cosine Transform. Contrast assessment is based on contrast measurement and selection of the high contrast images among some images captured in a short period. Experimental results show little or no distortion in the perspective view of the images. Thus, the suggested method achieves camera self-calibration accuracy of approximately 93%.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.391-394
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• 2005

In this paper, we present an approach that is able to reconstruct 3 dimensional metric models from un-calibrated images acquired by a freely moved camera system. If nothing is known of the calibration of either camera, nor the arrangement of one camera which respect to the other, then the projective reconstruction will have projective distortion which expressed by an arbitrary projective transformation. The distortion on the reconstruction is removed from projection to metric through self-calibration. The self-calibration requires no information about the camera matrices, or information about the scene geometry. Self-calibration is the process of determining internal camera parameters directly from multiply un-calibrated images. Self-calibration avoids the onerous task of calibrating cameras which needs to use special calibration objects. The root of the method is setting a uniquely fixed conic(absolute quadric) in 3D space. And it can make possible to figure out some way from the images. Once absolute quadric is identified, the metric geometry can be computed. We compared reconstruction image from calibrated images with the result by self-calibration method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2689-2708
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• 2016

Multi-camera systems which integrate two or more low-cost digital cameras are adopted to reach higher ground coverage and improve the base-height ratio in low altitude remote sensing. To guarantee accurate multi-camera integration, the geometric relationship among cameras must be determined through platform calibration techniques. This paper proposed a combined two-step platform calibration method. In the first step, the static platform calibration was conducted based on the stable relative orientation constraint and convergent conditions among cameras in static environments. In the second step, a dynamic platform self-calibration approach was proposed based on not only tie points but also straight lines in order to correct the small change of the relative relationship among cameras during dynamic flight. Experiments based on the proposed two-step platform calibration method were carried out with terrestrial and aerial images from a multi-camera system combined with four consumer-grade digital cameras onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle. The experimental results have shown that the proposed platform calibration approach is able to compensate the varied relative relationship during flight, acquiring the mosaicing accuracy of virtual images smaller than 0.5pixel. The proposed approach can be extended for calibrating other low-cost multi-camera system without rigorously mechanical structure.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2006

최근 비 측정용 디지털 카메라의 화소수가 급증하고, 카메라 단가 또한 저렴해져 문화재 및 시설물의 3차원 공간 측량 등에도 이를 활용할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나 비 측정용 카메라를 측량용으로 활용하기 위해서는, 카메라 자체검정을 통해 내부 표정요소를 정확히 계산해내야 한다. 이를 위해서는 적절한 검정 대상지의 구성 및 촬영계획이 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 지상기준점 수, 사진의 수, 기준점의 차원(2차원 및 3차원)등의 조건에 따른 카메라 자체 검정 정확도에 대하여 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 근거리 사진측량을 위한 자체검정 대상지 구축 시 수직사진을 포함하는 3장 이상의 사진으로 안정된 정확도를 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있었고, 3차원 복원을 목적으로 하는 경우, 평면상의 지상기준점 10점으로도 높은 정회도의 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제30권6_1호
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• pp.511-518
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• 2012

비측정용 카메라를 이용하여 근거리 사진측량을 수행하기 위해서는 카메라 캘리브레이션이 필요하며 근거리 사진측량의 특성상 캘리브레이션은 정밀 기준점의 설치, 다수의 영상획득, 정밀 좌표측정과 더불어 많은 시간이 소요된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실제 캘리브레이션 필드를 대상으로 기준점의 개수, 배치, 사진조합에 따른 오차를 분석하여 효율적인 캘리브레이션 방법을 모색하는 연구를 수행하였다. 기준점의 기복과 사진 조합의 관계가 측량 정확도에 미치는 영향, 그리고 기준점 수와 모델링하고자 하는 내부표정요소 개수에 의한 측량 정확도 등을 분석하여 효율적인 조합을 도출하고자 하였다. 마지막으로, 도출된 조합을 기반으로 한 현장 셀프캘리브레이션에 의한 측량 결과를 실험실 셀프 캘리브레이션 결과와의 측량 정확도와 비교했을 때 반 픽셀의 이내의 차이를 보여 동일한 정확성을 달성할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 지반변형과 같은 응용분야의 정밀 측정에 충분히 활용 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2015

This study examined the feasibility of using an automatic lens distortion correction (ALDC) camera as the payload for a photogrammetric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. First, lens distortion for the interior orientation (IO) parameters was estimated. Although previous studies have largely ignored decentering distortion, this study revealed that more than 50% of the distortion of the ALDC camera was caused by decentering distortion. Second, we compared the accuracy of bundle adjustment for camera calibration using three image types: raw imagery without the ALDC option; imagery corrected using lens profiles; and imagery with the ALDC option. The results of image triangulation, the digital terrain model (DTM), and the orthoimage using the IO parameters for the ALDC camera were similar to or slightly better than the results using self-calibration. These results confirm that the ALDC camera can be used in a photogrammetric UAV system using only self-calibration.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2010년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.779-782
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• 2010

Self-calibration에서 3차원 좌표의 복원은 호모그래피 행렬 H를 계산하면 얻을 수 있다. 이 호모그래피 행렬을 얻는 방법은 dual absolute quadric, Kruppa Equation(dual conic), plane at infinity(modulus constraint)를 사용하는 방법과 같이 세 가지 방법이 일반적으로 사용된다. 제안하는 방식은 dual absolute quadric을 사용한다. 카메라 내부 속성이 모든 뷰에서 동일하고 비틀림이나 영상의 원점이 중심이라는 가정을 두고 호모그래피 행렬 H를 계산한다. 실험을 통해서 주어진 가정으로 정밀한 복원이 가능함을 보였다.