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Type Journal Article
Scope Contributions to practice
Title Calibration by correlation using metric embedding from non-metric similarities
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Andrea Censi
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0098-5589
Volume 35
Number 10
Page Range 2357 - 2370
Date 2013
Abstract Text This paper presents a new intrinsic calibration method that allows us to calibrate a generic single-view point camera. From the video sequence obtained while the camera undergoes random motion, we compute the pairwise time correlation of the luminance signal for the pixels. We show that the pairwise correlation of any pixels pair is a function of the distance between the pixel directions on the visual sphere. This leads to formalizing calibration as a problem of metric embedding from non-metric measurements: we want to find the disposition of pixels on the visual sphere, from similarities that are an unknown function of the distances. This problem is a generalization of multidimensional scaling (MDS) that has so far resisted a comprehensive observability analysis and a generic solution. We show that the observability depends both on the local geometric properties as well as on the global topological properties of the target manifold. It follows that, in contrast to the Euclidean case, on the sphere we can recover the scale of the points distribution. We describe an algorithm that is robust across manifolds and can recover a metrically accurate solution when the metric information is observable. We demonstrate the performance of the algorithm for several cameras (pin-hole, fish-eye, omnidirectional).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPAMI.2013.34
Other Identification Number merlin-id:7902
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