Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 12, 1215001(2022)

Underwater Light Field Camera Calibration Based on Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Model and Multi-Projection-Center Model

Xiaoqiang Zhang1、*, Liangtao Zhong1, Qiqi Leng1, Lingyan Ran2, and Hongyu Chu1
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621000, Sichuan, China
  • 2School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi′an 710129, Shaanxi, China
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    The lack of calibration methods for the underwater light field camera restricts the applications of light field imaging technologies in underwater and other refractive scenes. Aiming at the above problem, the ray paths of the scene and those inside the camera in typical underwater scenes are modeled based on the multi-layer flat refractive model and the multi-projection-center model, and the corresponding underwater calibration parameters are estimated. The underwater calibration parameters of the light field camera are linearly initialized by using the flat refractive geometric constraints. Considering the internal ray path distortion in the real light field camera, the underwater calibration parameters are optimized nonlinearly by minimizing the reprojection error. Quantitative calibration experiments of simulated scenes and real underwater scenes are designed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can estimate the underwater calibration parameters accurately. In multiple real underwater scene experiments, the direction errors of the normal vectors of the refraction surfaces are all less than 0.8° and the distance errors of the refraction surfaces are all less than 3%. The quantitative comparison experimental results show that, compared with the single-view underwater calibration method, the proposed method makes use of the multi-view characteristics of the light field camera, so the calibration results are closer to the real values.

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    Xiaoqiang Zhang, Liangtao Zhong, Qiqi Leng, Lingyan Ran, Hongyu Chu. Underwater Light Field Camera Calibration Based on Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Model and Multi-Projection-Center Model[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(12): 1215001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Nov. 15, 2021

    Accepted: Dec. 27, 2021

    Published Online: Jun. 7, 2022

    The Author Email: Zhang Xiaoqiang (xqzhang@swust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1215001

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