Calibrating pan-tilt cameras with telephoto lenses

Huang Xinyu, Gao Jizhou, Yang Ruigang

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Abstract

Pan-tilt cameras are widely used in surveillance networks. These cameras are often equipped with telephoto lenses to capture objects at a distance. Such a camera makes full-metric calibration more difficult since the projection with a telephoto lens is close to orthographic. This paper discusses the problems caused by pan-tilt cameras with long focal length and presents a method to improve the calibration accuracy. Experiments show that our method reduces the re-projection errors by an order of magnitude compared to popular homography-based approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2007 - 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages127-137
Number of pages11
EditionPART 1
StatePublished - 2007
Event8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2007 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: Nov 18 2007Nov 22 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume4843 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2007
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period11/18/0711/22/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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