A simple method of multiple camera calibration for the joint top view projection

Presentado al CORES-2007 celebrado en Wroclaw (Poland).A simple method for multiple camera calibration based on a novel geometric derivation is presented. The main advantage of this method is that it uses only three points in the world coordinate system to achieve the calibration. Rotation matrix and translation vector for each camera coordinate system are obtained via the given distance between the vertices of the marker triangle formed by the three points. Therefore, the different views from the different cameras can be converted into one top view in the world coordinate system. Eventually, the different trajectories traced by certain tracked agents on the floor plane can be obtained from different viewpoints and can be matched in a joint scene plane.This work was supported by the project 'Integration of robust perception, learning, and navigation systems in mobile robotics' (J-0929).This work is supported by EC grants IST-027110 for the HERMES project and IST-045547 for the VIDI -video project, and by the Spanish MEC under projects TIN2006-14606 and DPI-2004-5414. M. Mozerov and Jordi Gonzàlez also acknowledge the support of a Ramon y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral fellowships from the Spanish MEC, respectively.Peer Reviewe

A simple method of multiple camera calibration for the joint top view projection

A simple method for multiple camera calibration based on a novel geometric derivation is presented. The main advantage of this method is that it uses only three points in the world coordinate system to achieve the calibration. Rotation matrix and translation vector for each camera coordinate system are obtained via the given distance between the vertices of the marker triangle formed by the three points. Therefore, the different views from the different cameras can be converted into one top view in the world coordinate system. Eventually, the different trajectories traced by certain tracked agents on the floor plane can be obtained from different viewpoints and can be matched in a joint scene plane.Peer Reviewe