Error Analysis of Pure Rotation-Based Self-Calibration

Abstract

Self-calibration using pure rotation is a well-known technique and has been shown to be a reliable means for recovering intrinsic camera parameters. However, in practice, it is virtually impossible to ensure that the camera motion for this type of self-calibration is a pure rotation. In this paper, we present an error analysis of recovered intrinsic camera parameters due to the presence of translation. We derived closed-form error expressions for a single pair of images with nondegenerate motion; for multiple rotations for which there are no closed-form solutions, analysis was done through repeated experiments. Among others, we show that translation-independent solutions do exist under certain practical conditions. Our analysis can be used to help choose the least error-prone approach (if multiple approaches exist) for a given set of conditions.

Cite

Text

Wang et al. "Error Analysis of Pure Rotation-Based Self-Calibration." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.10063

Markdown

[Wang et al. "Error Analysis of Pure Rotation-Based Self-Calibration." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2001/wang2001iccv-error/) doi:10.1109/ICCV.2001.10063

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2001iccv-error,
  title     = {{Error Analysis of Pure Rotation-Based Self-Calibration}},
  author    = {Wang, Leslie and Kang, Sing Bing and Shum, Heung-Yeung and Xu, Guangyou},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {464-471},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICCV.2001.10063},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2001/wang2001iccv-error/}
}