Camera calibration

Wikipedia

Camera resectioning or geometric camera calibration

Software

• OpenCV Module Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstruction

• Python tutorial Camera Calibration

• Within Matlab Computer Vision Toolbox: Single and Stereo Camera Calibration

• Theoretical background What Is Camera Calibration?

Knowledge enhancement

Common references of OpenCV and Matlab camera calibration:

• Zhang, Z. “A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Vol. 22, No. 11, 2000, pp. 1330–1334. | Online access | alternatives/complements:

  • Zhang, Zhengyou "A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration", Technical Report MSR-TR-98-71, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, 1998. | Local copy

  • Barbara Frank, Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Kai Arras, Wolfram Burgard "Camera Calibration", Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Autonome Intelligente Systeme, Robotics 2, Wintersemester 09/10. | Local copy

• Bouguet, J. Y. “Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab.” Computational Vision at the California Institute of Technology. Camera Calibration Toolbox for MATLAB

For the "Releasing object" method newly implemented in OpenCV:

• Klaus H. Strobl and Gerd Hirzinger, "More Accurate Pinhole Camera Calibration with Imperfect Planar Target", 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV), 2011, pp. 1068-1075. | Local copy