Camera calibration of a near-parallel imaging system based on magnification rate

Xiufu Zhang; Feipeng Da; Dongliang Zheng; Li Rao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.6.064104

17 June 2019 Camera calibration of a near-parallel imaging system based on magnification rate

Xiufu Zhang, Feipeng Da, Dongliang Zheng, Li Rao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 6, 064104 (June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.064104

Abstract

Microscopes are now widely used in the field of three-dimensional measurements for their high magnification and changeable physical focal length. However, the small depth of focus restricts the camera from taking clear images with apparent tilts. To set the camera in focus, the calibration board should be near-parallel to the imaging plane. As a result, the traditional calibration methods are not practical for a normal lens, which requires multiple views of the calibration board. For this, a method in which a digital camera with a microscope is calibrated precisely under the near-parallel condition is proposed. In this method, the magnification rate of the imaging system, which is equal to the rate of image distance to object distance, is calculated precisely and utilized to calculate camera parameters. Due to the invariance of the magnification rate, the parameters calculated by this method are accurate and stable. In addition, to solve the problem that the physical focal length cannot be calibrated by one image, the magnification method is adopted to measure it. Finally, the stability and accuracy are evaluated by simulations and experiments.

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Xiufu Zhang, Feipeng Da, Dongliang Zheng, and Li Rao "Camera calibration of a near-parallel imaging system based on magnification rate," Optical Engineering 58(6), 064104 (17 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.064104

Received: 18 January 2019; Accepted: 21 May 2019; Published: 17 June 2019

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