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Integrating scene parallelism in camera auto-calibration

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This paper presents an approach for camera auto-calibration from uncalibrated video sequences taken by a hand-held camera. The novelty of this approach lies in that the line parallelism is transformed to the constraints on the absolute quadric during camera autocalibration. This makes some critical cases solvable and the reconstruction more Euclidean. The approach is implemented and validated using simulated data and real image data. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the approach.

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  1. ISN National Key Lab, Department of Information Engineering, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, P.R. China

    Liu Yong & Wu ChengKe

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. china

    Hung-Tat Tsui

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.69972039 and Hong Kong RGC under Grant No. GULIK4402/99E.

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Liu, Y., Wu, C. & Hung-Tat, T. Integrating scene parallelism in camera auto-calibration. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 839–847 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02945474

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