The classic perspective projection is mostly used when calibrating a camera. Although this approach is fairly developed and often suitable, it is not necessarily adequate to model any camera system like fish-eyes or catadioptrics. The perspective projection is not applicable when field of views reach 180° and beyond. In this case an appropriate model for a particular non perspective camera has to be used. Having an unknown camera system a generic camera model is required. This paper discusses a variety of parametric and generic camera models. These models will be validated subsequently using different camera systems. A unified approach of deriving initial parameter guesses for subsequent parameter optimisation is presented. Experimental results prove that generic camera models perform as accurate as a particular parametric model would do. Furthermore, there is no previous knowledge about the camera system needed.
Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Krzysztof Maciej Lis, Sina Honari
Martin Vetterli, Eric Bezzam, Sepand Kashani, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni