A Pixel-Wise Varifocal Camera Model for Efficient Forward Projection and Linear Extrinsic Calibration of Underwater Cameras with Flat Housings

Abstract

This paper is aimed at presenting a new virtual camera model which can efficiently model refraction through flat housings in underwater photography. The key idea is to em-ploy a pixel-wise virtual focal length concept to encode the refractive projection inside the flat housing. The radially-symmetric structure of the varifocal length around the nor-mal of the housing surface allows us to encode the refractive projection with a compact representation. We show that this model realizes an efficient forward projection computation and a linear extrinsic calibration in water. Evaluations us-ing synthesized and real data demonstrate the performance quantitatively and qualitatively. 1.

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Text

Kawahara et al. "A Pixel-Wise Varifocal Camera Model for Efficient Forward Projection and Linear Extrinsic Calibration of Underwater Cameras with Flat Housings." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2013. doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2013.112

Markdown

[Kawahara et al. "A Pixel-Wise Varifocal Camera Model for Efficient Forward Projection and Linear Extrinsic Calibration of Underwater Cameras with Flat Housings." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2013.](https://mlanthology.org/iccvw/2013/kawahara2013iccvw-pixelwise/) doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2013.112

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kawahara2013iccvw-pixelwise,
  title     = {{A Pixel-Wise Varifocal Camera Model for Efficient Forward Projection and Linear Extrinsic Calibration of Underwater Cameras with Flat Housings}},
  author    = {Kawahara, Ryo and Nobuhara, Shohei and Matsuyama, Takashi},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {819-824},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICCVW.2013.112},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccvw/2013/kawahara2013iccvw-pixelwise/}
}