• 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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• 제32권3호
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• pp.191-204
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• 2014

In recent years, multi-camera systems have been recognized as an affordable alternative for the collection of 3D spatial data from physical surfaces. The collected data can be applied for different mapping(e.g., mobile mapping and mapping inaccessible locations)or metrology applications (e.g., industrial, biomedical, and architectural). In order to fully exploit the potential accuracy of these systems and ensure successful manipulation of the involved cameras, a careful system calibration should be performed prior to the data collection procedure. The calibration of a multi-camera system is accomplished when the individual cameras are calibrated and the geometric relationships among the different system components are defined. In this paper, a new single-step approach is introduced for the calibration of a multi-camera system (i.e., individual camera calibration and estimation of the lever-arm and boresight angles among the system components). In this approach, one of the cameras is set as the reference camera and the system mounting parameters are defined relative to that reference camera. The proposed approach is easy to implement and computationally efficient. The major advantage of this method, when compared to available multi-camera system calibration approaches, is the flexibility of being applied for either directly or indirectly geo-referenced multi-camera systems. The feasibility of the proposed approach is verified through experimental results using real data collected by a newly-developed indirectly geo-referenced multi-camera system.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.205-216
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• 2014

Multi-camera systems have been widely used as cost-effective tools for the collection of geospatial data for various applications. In order to fully achieve the potential accuracy of these systems for object space reconstruction, careful system calibration should be carried out prior to data collection. Since the structural integrity of the involved cameras' components and system mounting parameters cannot be guaranteed over time, multi-camera system should be frequently calibrated to confirm the stability of the estimated parameters. Therefore, automated techniques are needed to facilitate and speed up the system calibration procedure. The automation of the multi-camera system calibration approach, which was proposed in the first part of this paper, is contingent on the automated detection, localization, and identification of the object space signalized targets in the images. In this paper, the automation of the proposed camera calibration procedure through automatic target extraction and labelling approaches will be presented. The introduced automated system calibration procedure is then implemented for a newly-developed multi-camera system while considering the optimum configuration for the data collection. Experimental results from the implemented system calibration procedure are finally presented to verify the feasibility the proposed automated procedure. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the estimated system calibration parameters from two-calibration sessions is also presented to confirm the stability of the cameras' interior orientation and system mounting parameters.

• 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.

• 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.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.746-752
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• 2014

In a multi-camera measurement system, the determination of the external parameters is one of the vital tasks, referred to as the calibration of the system. In this paper, a new geometrical calibration method, which is based on the theory of the vanishing line, is proposed. Using a planar target with three equally spaced parallel lines, the normal vector of the target plane can be confirmed easily in every camera coordinate system of the measurement system. By moving the target into more than two different positions, the rotation matrix can be determined from related theory, i.e., the expression of the same vector in different coordinate systems. Moreover, the translation matrix can be derived from the known distance between the adjacent parallel lines. In this paper, the main factors effecting the calibration are analyzed. Simulations show that the proposed method achieves robustness and accuracy. Experimental results show that the calibration can reach 1.25 mm with the range about 0.5m. Furthermore, this calibration method also can be used for auto-calibration of the multi-camera mefasurement system as the feature of parallels exists widely.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.187-190
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an extrinsic calibration method for a multi-view camera to get an optimal pose in 3D space. Conventional calibration algorithms do not guarantee the calibration accuracy at a mid/long distance because pixel errors increase as the distance between camera and pattern goes far. To compensate for the calibration errors, firstly, we apply the Tsai's algorithm to each lens so that we obtain initial extrinsic parameters Then, we estimate extrinsic parameters by using distance vectors obtained from structural cues of a multi-view camera. After we get the estimated extrinsic parameters of each lens, we carry out a non-linear optimization using the relationship between camera coordinate and world coordinate iteratively. The optimal camera parameters can be used in generating 3D panoramic virtual environment and supporting AR applications.

• 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.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2008

최근 항공측량분야의 가장 큰 기술적 특징은 Camera 혹은 Lidar와 같은 주 센싱 장비에 GPS, IMU 등 다양한 위치결정 센서를 연계한 Direct Georeferencing 기술의 활용이다. 아울러 항측용 디지털 카메라의 기술적 우월성과 이의 활용성이 입증됨에 따라 다양한 종류의 항측용 디지털 카메라가 개발 및 보급되고 있다. 이에 부응하여 국내에서도 일반적인 항공촬영으로는 취득이 불가능한 건물측면과 비고가 큰 지형에서 발생하는 사각지역에 대하여도 3차원 정보취득과 Texture Mapping이 가능한 다각(Multi-looking)항공촬영시스템의 개발이 시도되고 있다. 하지만 다양한 센서 결합과 다중 카메라의 배열에 따른 센서들간의 시각동기화와 함께 정확한 기하 및 복사보정을 실시해야 하는 문제점이 따른다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 항공측량 시스템의 센서검정(Sensor Calibration)에 필요한 테스트 필드가 절실히 요구되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 항공측량용 테스트 필드 구축과 관련한 국외 사례를 고찰하고 국내 테스트 필드 구축방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2003년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.129-134
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• 2003

Mobile Mapping System needs system calibration of multi sensors. System calibration is defined as determination of spatial and rotational offsets between the sensors. Especially, EO parameters of GPS/INS require knowledge of the calibration to camera frame. The calibration parameters must be determined with the highest achievable accuracy in order to get 3D coordinate points in stereo CCD images. This study applies Boresight calibration for the calibration between GPS/INS and camera, and estimates the Performance of the calibration.