Direct Calibration by Fitting of Cuboids to a Single Image Using Differential Evolution

  • Authors:
  • Luis Gerardo Fraga;Oliver Schütze

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico 07360;Computer Science Department, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico 07360

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this article we propose a new method to calibrate directly the camera by which it was taken an image of a cuboid, and to find at the same time the orientation and side lengths of the cuboid. This is a highly non-linear optimization problem that is solved directly using a heuristic called differential evolution. We show in this paper that this problem is very difficult if one tries to solve it with a conventional scalar optimization procedure. Although differential evolution is a heuristic, we find valid results in 100% of the executions. We test our method with synthetic and real images.