Caustics of Catadioptric Cameras

Swaminathan, Rahul; Grossberg, Michael D.; Nayar, Shree K.

doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.937581

Caustics of Catadioptric Cameras

Rahul Swaminathan, Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Nayar

ICCV 2001 pp. 2-9

doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.937581 /iccv/2001/swaminathan2001iccv-caustics/

Abstract

Conventional vision systems and algorithms assume the camera to have a single viewpoint. However, sensors need not always maintain a single viewpoint. For instance, an incorrectly aligned system could cause non-single viewpoints. Also, systems could be designed to specifically deviate from a single viewpoint to trade-off image characteristics such as resolution and field of view. In these cases, the locus of viewpoints forms what is called a caustic. In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of caustics of catadioptric cameras with conic reflectors. Properties of caustics with respect to field of view and resolution are presented. Finally, we present ways to calibrate conic catadioptric systems and estimate their caustics from known camera motion.

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Swaminathan et al. "Caustics of Catadioptric Cameras." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.937581

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[Swaminathan et al. "Caustics of Catadioptric Cameras." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2001/swaminathan2001iccv-caustics/) doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.937581

BibTeX

@inproceedings{swaminathan2001iccv-caustics,
  title     = {{Caustics of Catadioptric Cameras}},
  author    = {Swaminathan, Rahul and Grossberg, Michael D. and Nayar, Shree K.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {2-9},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICCV.2001.937581},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2001/swaminathan2001iccv-caustics/}
}