I'm currently trying to calibrate a camera and use those data to calibrate a projector. The first steps of this process start with printing a chessboard, generate chessboard calibration images and use them to calibrate the camera. Matlab documentation is quite thorough but it doesn't mention how one can generate its own chessboard calibration images. I can only assume this is a fairly simple thing to do but I'm new to Matlab so haven't figured out yet so any help would be greatly appreciated.
You generate the calibration images by taking pictures of the chessboard with your camera.
Also, if you have a recent version of MATLAB with the Computer Vision System Toolbox, try the Camera Calibrator app
https://sites.google.com/site/visheshpanjabihomepage/codes
The second set of codes, will help you collect the images for the camera calibration toolbox by Dr. Boquet (Link of which is given on the prescribed page itself).
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I have faced the issue of real face detection using Vision Framework.
I have referred below apple link.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/tracking_the_user_s_face_in_real_time
I used demo code provided in above link. I see, Camera can detect the face from printed photo or passport photo. It is not real face photo. How can I know if this is not real face in camera using Vision framework?
You can use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arfacegeometry
This will create a 3D mesh of a human face. A 3D mesh will have different values (e.g. vertices , triangleIndices), in its topology compared to a 2D picture.
Here is a project link
here I have used camera API for face detection and eye blinking. you can check and customize according to your requirement.
Update: Here is another project for liveness Check using MLKit link
Vision + RealityKit
Apple Vision framework has been processing "2D requests". It works only with RGB channels. If you need to process 3D surfaces you have to implement LiDAR scanner API, that based on Depth principles. It will allow you to distinguish between a photo and a real face. I think that Vision + RealityKit is the best choice for you, because you can detect a face (2D or 3D) at first stage in Vision, and then using LiDAR, it's quite easy to find out whether normals of polygonal faces are directed in the same direction (2D surface), or in different directions (3D head).
i want to make surface detection like in this video this. But, i dont want to realtime, i want to detect by image like this. Example implemented you can check Here Do you guys have tutorial or can you give me some advice? Thanks before
ARCore doesn't detect surfaces based on single images. It uses a stream of images, plus information from other sensors, like the gyroscope.
Some information here.
For surface detection in images you can look at other libraries, like OpenCV.
I'm working on stereo vision project with Halcon/NET. My project is to scanning the surface of a metal plate. Is it possible to detect small hole(1-3mm) on it with stereo vision?
If you are somewhat familiar with epipolar geometry and MRF optimization, you can have a look at this classic paper on 'Depth Estimation from Video'.
http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/home/bao/pub/Consistent_Depth_Maps_Recovery_from_a_Video_Sequence.pdf
For camera calibration, you can use their ACTS software from here -
http://www.zjucvg.net/acts/acts.html
It accepts a video sequence and generates camera parameters and depth maps.
I hope it helps!
Yes, it is definitely possible to detect it - but I doubt you need stereo vision for it. Stereo vision is only useful when you want to recover 3D information (depth) from a scene.
Detection and classification can be achieved through deep learning methods too, it will also be probably more intuitive that way - but it depends on how unique your 'hole' is compared to the background of your scene. A problem of similar novelty has been discussed in this paper.
The same problem persists for stereo-vision, if the background of your scene has similar features to what you are trying to 'detect' it will create problems during stereo-matching.
Even if you use a simple 'edge' detector using a monocular vision system, it will still cause a problem.
I am currently using the camera calibration toolbox from vision caltech:http://www.vision.caltech.edu/bouguetj/calib_doc/htmls/example.html
It has been good so far and I was able to obtain the camera parameters of my camera and everything using the checkered board.
So now I have been taking pictures with my camera and I want to undistort them using the calibration results I obtained from the caltech calibration toolbox.
The parameters are saved in a .mat file but I cannot find a way to use them on other images I took.
Anyone knows how to do that?
Thanks;
There is an easier way to calibrate cameras in MATLAB. The Computer Vision System Toolbox also includes the undistortImage function, which is what you are looking for.
I am very new to camera calibration and I have been trying to work with the camera calibration app from MATLAB's computer vision toolbox.
So I followed the steps they suggested on the website and so far so good, I was able to obtain the intrinsic parameters of the camera.
So now, I am kind of confused about what should I do with the "cameraParameter" object that was created when the calibration was done.
So my questions are:
(1) What should I do with the cameraParameter object that was created?
(2) How do I use this object when I am using the camera to capture images of something?
(3) Do I need the checker board around each time I capture images for my experiment?
(4) Should the camera be placed at the same spot each time?
I am sorry if those questions are really beginner level, camera calibration is new to me and I was not able to find my answers.
Thank you so much for your help.
I assume you are working with 1 just camera, so only intrinsic parameters of the camera are in the game.
(1),(2). Once your camera is calibrated, you need to use this parameters to undistort the image. Cameras dont take the images as they are in reality as the lenses distort it a bit, and the calibration parameters are for fixing the images. More in wikipedia.
About when you need to recalibrate the camera (3): if you set up the camera and don't change its focus, then you can use the same calibration parameters, but once you change the focal distance a recalibration is necessary.
(4) As long as you dont change the focal distance and you are not using a stereo camera sistem you can change your camera freely.
What you are looking for are two separate calibration steps: Alignment of depth image to color image and conversion from depth to a point cloud. Both functions are provided by windows sdk. There are matlab wrappers that call these SDK functions. You may want to do your own calibration only if you are not satisfied with the manufacturer calibration information stored on Kinect. Usually the error is within 1-2 pixels in the 2D alignment, and 4mm in 3D.
When you calibrate a single camera, you can use the resulting cameraParameters object for several things. First, you can remove the effects of lens distortion using the undistortImage function, which requires cameraParameters. There is also a function called extrinsics, which you can use to locate your calibrated camera in the world relative to some reference object (e. g. a checkerboard). Here's an example of how you can use a single camera to measure planar objects.
A depth sensor, like the Kinect, is a bit of different animal. It already gives you the depth in real units at each pixel. Additional calibration of the Kinect is useful if you want a more precise 3D reconstruction than what it gives you out of the box.
It would generally be helpful if you could tell us more about what it is you are trying to accomplish with your experiments.