Omnidirectional camera calibration and 3D reconstruction by contour matching

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to both omnidirectional camera calibration and 3D reconstruction of the surrounding scene by contour matching in architectural scenes. By using a quantitative measure to consider the inlier distribution, we can estimate more precise camera model parameters and structure from motion. Since most of line segments of man-made objects are projected to the contours in omnidirectional images, contour matching problem is important in camera recovery process. We propose a novel 3D reconstruction method by contour matching in three omnidirectional views. First, two points on the contour and their viewing vectors are used to determine an interpretation plane equation, and we obtain a contour intersecting both the plane and the estimated patch of the camera model. Then, 3D line segment is calculated from two patches, which is projected to the contour on the third views, and these matching results are used in refinement of camera recovery. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.