The is an updated version of the Multi Camera Self Calibration toolbox by Svoboda et al.
Links:
- This version of the code lives on github.
- The original website remains a good source of information. (This version of the code is being made publicly available with the permission of Tomas Svoboda.)
- We have an online discussion group.
If you use this library, please cite:
Svoboda T, Martinec D, Pajdla T. (2005) A convenient multi-camera self-calibration for virtual environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. 14(4):407-422. [link]
At a high level, the changes are all in the usage, and not in the algorithmic domain. Those I remember are:
- Various small changes to get to work using Octave
- Disable plotting when running using Octave
- Implementation of new configuration file format that lives alongside the calibration data rather than in the source code files
- Inclusion of some sample data and tests
- Inclusion of a python interface to run the MultiCamSelfCal application
- Improved the interface for maximally aligning a new calibration to existing camera centers. See Align-Existing config option, and the original_cam_centers.dat input file.
The version history should make all of the changes clear.
The original readme file is in MultiCamSelfCal/README.txt
To test if everything is working for you, do the following:
cd MultiCamSelfCal octave gocal.m --config=../strawlab/test-data/DATA20100906_134124/no-global-iterations.cfg
This will run most of the algorithm on some sample data. Your computer should churn for a few minutes and finally should end with some lines indicating a successful calibration (with mean reprojection error 0.62 pixels):
GNU Octave, version 3.2.3 Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others. This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'. Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html Report bugs to <bug@octave.org> (but first, please read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report). For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'. arg = --config=../strawlab/test-data/DATA20100906_134124/no-global-iterations.cfg config_dir = /home/astraw/astraw-git-root/flydra/MultiCamSelfCal/MultiCamSelfCal/../strawlab/test-data/DATA20100906_134124/ Multi-Camera Self-Calibration, Tomas Svoboda et al., 07/2003 ************************************************************ Experiment name: strawlab_test warning: The calibration file config.files.CalPmat does not exist warning: No P mat available warning: The calibration file config.files.CalPmat does not exist warning: No P mat available warning: The calibration file config.files.CalPmat does not exist warning: No P mat available warning: The calibration file config.files.CalPmat does not exist warning: No P mat available warning: No Pmat available ********** After 0 iteration ******************************************* RANSAC validation step running with tolerance threshold: 10.00 ... RANSAC: 2 samples, 523 inliers out of 523 points RANSAC: 1 samples, 523 inliers out of 523 points RANSAC: 2 samples, 432 inliers out of 434 points RANSAC: 1 samples, 362 inliers out of 362 points 522 points/frames have survived validations so far Filling of missing points is running ... Repr. error in proj. space (no fact./fact.) is ... 0.708677 0.688062 ************************************************************ Number of detected outliers: 0 About cameras (Id, 2D reprojection error, #inliers): CamId std mean #inliers 1 0.62 0.69 432 2 0.81 0.70 523 3 0.83 0.78 523 4 0.49 0.53 362 *************************************************************** ************************************************************** Refinement by using Bundle Adjustment Repr. error in proj. space (no fact./fact./BA) is ... 0.714557 0.686345 0.620358 2D reprojection error All points: mean 0.62 pixels, std is 0.61
John Stowers wrote an API to let this code be directly called from Python. To install:
cd python python setup.py install
To test:
cd python/tests nosetests