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Multistep Explicit Stereo Camera Calibration Approach to Improve Euclidean Accuracy of Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction


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Authors

Fathi, Habib 

Abstract

The spatial accuracy of point clouds generated by stereo image-based 3D reconstruction algorithms is very sensitive to the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters determined during camera calibration. The existing camera calibration algorithms induce a significant amount of error due to poor estimation accuracies in camera parameters when they are used for large-scale scenes such as mapping civil infrastructure. This leads to higher uncertainties in the location of 3D points, and may result in the failure of the whole reconstruction process. This paper proposes a novel procedure to address this problem. It hypothesizes that a set of multiple calibrations created by videotaping a moving calibration pattern along a specific path can increase overall calibration accuracy. This is achieved by using conventional camera calibration algorithms to perform separate estimations for some predefined distance values. The result, which includes multiple sets of camera parameters, is then used in the Structure from Motion process to improve the Euclidean accuracy of the reconstruction. The proposed method has been tested on infrastructure scenes and experimental analyses indicate more than 25% improvement in the spatial accuracy of 3D points.

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Keywords

Camera calibration, Structure from motion, Videogrammetry, Bundle adjustment, Lens distortion

Journal Title

JOURNAL OF COMPUTING IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

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Journal ISSN

0887-3801
1943-5487

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Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I019308/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K000314/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L010917/1)