Calibrating an outdoor distributed camera network using Laser Range Finder data

Abstract— Outdoor camera networks are becoming ubiquitous in critical urban areas of large cities around the world. Although current applications of camera networks are mostly limited to video surveillance, recent research projects are exploiting advances on outdoor robotics technology to develop systems that put together networks of cameras and mobile robots in people assisting tasks. Such systems require the creation of robot navigation systems in urban areas with a precise calibration of the distributed camera network. Despite camera calibration has been an extensively studied topic, the calibration (intrinsic and extrinsic) of large outdoor camera networks with no overlapping view fields, and likely to suffer frequent recalibration, poses novel challenges in the development of practical methods for user-assisted calibration that minimize intervention times and maximize precision. In this paper we propose the utilization of Laser Range Finder (LRF) data covering the area of the c...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: IROS
• Authors: Agustin Alberto Ortega Jimenez, Bruno Dias, Ernesto Homar Teniente Avilés, Alexandre Bernardino, José António Gaspar, Juan Andrade-Cetto
• Keywords: Calibration, Camera Networks, IROS 2009, Outdoor Camera Networks, Robotics