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Camera Pose Estimation with Unknown Principal Point

Larsson, Viktor LU ; Kukelova, Zuzana and Zheng, Yinqiang (2018) 31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018 p.2984-2992
Abstract

To estimate the 6-DoF extrinsic pose of a pinhole camera with partially unknown intrinsic parameters is a critical sub-problem in structure-from-motion and camera localization. In most of existing camera pose estimation solvers, the principal point is assumed to be in the image center. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true, especially for asymmetrically cropped images. In this paper, we develop the first exactly minimal solver for the case of unknown principal point and focal length by using four and a half point correspondences (P4.5Pfuv). We also present an extremely fast solver for the case of unknown aspect ratio (P5Pfuva). The new solvers outperform the previous state-of-the-art in terms of stability and speed. Finally,... (More)

To estimate the 6-DoF extrinsic pose of a pinhole camera with partially unknown intrinsic parameters is a critical sub-problem in structure-from-motion and camera localization. In most of existing camera pose estimation solvers, the principal point is assumed to be in the image center. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true, especially for asymmetrically cropped images. In this paper, we develop the first exactly minimal solver for the case of unknown principal point and focal length by using four and a half point correspondences (P4.5Pfuv). We also present an extremely fast solver for the case of unknown aspect ratio (P5Pfuva). The new solvers outperform the previous state-of-the-art in terms of stability and speed. Finally, we explore the extremely challenging case of both unknown principal point and radial distortion, and develop the first practical non-minimal solver by using seven point correspondences (P7Pfruv). Experimental results on both simulated data and real Internet images demonstrate the usefulness of our new solvers.

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Proceedings - 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018
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8578413
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9 pages
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IEEE Computer Society
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31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018
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Salt Lake City, United States
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2018-06-18 - 2018-06-22
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9781538664209
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10.1109/CVPR.2018.00315
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>To estimate the 6-DoF extrinsic pose of a pinhole camera with partially unknown intrinsic parameters is a critical sub-problem in structure-from-motion and camera localization. In most of existing camera pose estimation solvers, the principal point is assumed to be in the image center. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true, especially for asymmetrically cropped images. In this paper, we develop the first exactly minimal solver for the case of unknown principal point and focal length by using four and a half point correspondences (P4.5Pfuv). We also present an extremely fast solver for the case of unknown aspect ratio (P5Pfuva). The new solvers outperform the previous state-of-the-art in terms of stability and speed. Finally, we explore the extremely challenging case of both unknown principal point and radial distortion, and develop the first practical non-minimal solver by using seven point correspondences (P7Pfruv). Experimental results on both simulated data and real Internet images demonstrate the usefulness of our new solvers.</p>}},
  author       = {{Larsson, Viktor and Kukelova, Zuzana and Zheng, Yinqiang}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings - 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018}},
  isbn         = {{9781538664209}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{12}},
  pages        = {{2984--2992}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE Computer Society}},
  title        = {{Camera Pose Estimation with Unknown Principal Point}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2018.00315}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/CVPR.2018.00315}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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