Euclidean structure from N ≥ 2 parallel circles: theory and algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Gurdjos;Peter Sturm;Yihong Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT-TCI, UPS, Toulouse, France;PERCEPTION, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France;NLPR-IA, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'06 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Our problem is that of recovering, in one view, the 2D Euclidean structure, induced by the projections of N parallel circles. This structure is a prerequisite for camera calibration and pose computation. Until now, no general method has been described for N 2. The main contribution of this work is to state the problem in terms of a system of linear equations to solve. We give a closed-form solution as well as bundle adjustment-like refinements, increasing the technical applicability and numerical stability. Our theoretical approach generalizes and extends all those described in existing works for N = 2 in several respects, as we can treat simultaneously pairs of orthogonal lines and pairs of circles within a unified framework. The proposed algorithm may be easily implemented, using well-known numerical algorithms. Its performance is illustrated by simulations and experiments with real images.