Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 10, 1015003(2019)

Accurate Calibration Method for Non-Overlapping Fields of Cameras Based on Spatial Constraints

Mashuang Ma*, Xiaogang Yang, Chuanxiang Li, Naixin Qi, and Ping Song
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  • Department of Missile Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710025, China
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    ing at the problem of the complexity of the existing global calibration method for multi-camera system with non-overlapping fields, an accurate calibration method with non-overlapping fields of view (FOV) cameras based on spatial constraints is proposed. Firstly, spliced small targets distributed in the field of respective camera are fixed together to make up a large calibration planar. A large-field camera is used to measure the spliced small targets, and the obtained relationship between the calibration plates is used as the correlated parameter between cameras. Then, small targets in the fields of view are obtained by non-overlapping FOV cameras, the reprojection error functions of cameras can be obtained based on spatial constraints, and the transformation matrix between non-overlapping FOV cameras is nonlinearly optimized by the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The experimental results show that the reprojection errors of the global calibration method are 0.33 mm and 0.57 mm for the X-axes and Y-axes, respectively. It achieves global calibration of non-overlapping FOV cameras with high precision and stability.

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    Mashuang Ma, Xiaogang Yang, Chuanxiang Li, Naixin Qi, Ping Song. Accurate Calibration Method for Non-Overlapping Fields of Cameras Based on Spatial Constraints[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(10): 1015003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: May. 20, 2019

    Accepted: Jun. 24, 2019

    Published Online: Oct. 9, 2019

    The Author Email: Ma Mashuang (mamas008@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.1015003

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