In this work, we introduce a new calibration method for a camera system comprising five Azure Kinect. The calibration method uses a ChArUco coded cube installed in the middle of the system. A new 3D optimization cost is proposed to overcome the IR camera noise and to enhance global 3D consistency of the captured model. The cost includes the repro-jection error and the point to plane distance. As a refinement stage, along with point to plane distance, a patch to plane distance is added in the cost to overcome the noise effect of the depth camera. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed calibration method achieves a better reprojection error and more stable results in terms of standard deviation of the estimated pose compared to the state-of-the-art. In addition, the qualitative results show that the proposed method can produce a better registered point cloud compared to conventional calibration.
Darwish, W, Bolsée, Q & Munteanu, A 2020, Robust Calibration of a Multi-View Azure Kinect Scanner Based on Spatial Consistency. in International Conference on 3D Imaging., 9376321, 2020 International Conference on 3D Immersion, IC3D 2020 - Proceedings, IEEE, pp. 1-6, International Conference on 3D Imaging 2020, Brussels, Belgium, 15/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/IC3D51119.2020.9376321
Darwish, W., Bolsée, Q., & Munteanu, A. (2020). Robust Calibration of a Multi-View Azure Kinect Scanner Based on Spatial Consistency. In International Conference on 3D Imaging (pp. 1-6). Article 9376321 (2020 International Conference on 3D Immersion, IC3D 2020 - Proceedings). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IC3D51119.2020.9376321
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title = "Robust Calibration of a Multi-View Azure Kinect Scanner Based on Spatial Consistency",
abstract = "In this work, we introduce a new calibration method for a camera system comprising five Azure Kinect. The calibration method uses a ChArUco coded cube installed in the middle of the system. A new 3D optimization cost is proposed to overcome the IR camera noise and to enhance global 3D consistency of the captured model. The cost includes the repro-jection error and the point to plane distance. As a refinement stage, along with point to plane distance, a patch to plane distance is added in the cost to overcome the noise effect of the depth camera. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed calibration method achieves a better reprojection error and more stable results in terms of standard deviation of the estimated pose compared to the state-of-the-art. In addition, the qualitative results show that the proposed method can produce a better registered point cloud compared to conventional calibration.",
author = "Walid Darwish and Quentin Bols{\'e}e and Adrian Munteanu",
year = "2020",
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note = "International Conference on 3D Imaging 2020, IC3D ; Conference date: 15-12-2020 Through 15-12-2020",
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