Title
Hypercatadioptric line images for 3D orientation and image rectification
Abstract
In central catadioptric systems 3D lines are projected into conics. In this paper we present a new approach to extract conics in the raw catadioptric image, which correspond to projected straight lines in the scene. Using the internal calibration and two image points we are able to compute analytically these conics which we name hypercatadioptric line images. We obtain the error propagation from the image points to the 3D line projection in function of the calibration parameters. We also perform an exhaustive analysis on the elements that can affect the conic extraction accuracy. Besides that, we exploit the presence of parallel lines in man-made environments to compute the dominant vanishing points (VPs) in the omnidirectional image. In order to obtain the intersection of two of these conics we analyze the self-polar triangle common to this pair. With the information contained in the vanishing points we are able to obtain the 3D orientation of the catadioptric system. This method can be used either in a vertical stabilization system required by autonomous navigation or to rectify images required in applications where the vertical orientation of the catadioptric system is assumed. We use synthetic and real images to test the proposed method. We evaluate the 3D orientation accuracy with a ground truth given by a goniometer and with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). We also test our approach performing vertical and full rectifications in sequences of real images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.robot.2012.02.008
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Line extraction,Hypercatadioptric images,3D orientation
Computer vision,Propagation of uncertainty,Image rectification,Computer science,Parallel,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Real image,Conic section,Vanishing point,Catadioptric system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
6
0921-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.58
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Bermudez-Cameo1110.58
luis puig a2110.58
J. J. Guerrero313410.02