A Generic Camera Model and Calibration Method for Conventional, Wide-Angle, and Fish-Eye Lenses

  • Authors:
  • Juho Kannala;Sami S. Brandt

  • Affiliations:
  • IEEE;IEEE

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Fish-eye lenses are convenient in such applications where a very wide angle of view is needed, but their use for measurement purposes has been limited by the lack of an accurate, generic, and easy-to-use calibration procedure. We hence propose a generic camera model, which is suitable for fish-eye lens cameras as well as for conventional and wide-angle lens cameras, and a calibration method for estimating the parameters of the model. The achieved level of calibration accuracy is comparable to the previously reported state-of-the-art.