2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analytical Forward Projection for Axial Non-central Dioptric and Catadioptric Cameras
Authors : Amit Agrawal, Yuichi Taguchi, Srikumar Ramalingam
Published in: Computer Vision – ECCV 2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We present a technique for modeling non-central catadioptric cameras consisting of a perspective camera and a rotationally symmetric conic reflector. While previous approaches use a central approximation and/or iterative methods for forward projection, we present an analytical solution. This allows computation of the optical path from a given 3D point to the given viewpoint by solving a 6
th
degree forward projection equation for general conic mirrors. For a spherical mirror, the forward projection reduces to a 4
th
degree equation, resulting in a closed form solution. We also derive the forward projection equation for imaging through a refractive sphere (non-central dioptric camera) and show that it is a 10
th
degree equation. While central catadioptric cameras lead to conic epipolar curves, we show the existence of a quartic epipolar curve for catadioptric systems using a spherical mirror. The analytical forward projection leads to accurate and fast 3D reconstruction via bundle adjustment. Simulations and real results on single image sparse 3D reconstruction are presented. We demonstrate ~ 100 times speed up using the analytical solution over iterative forward projection for 3D reconstruction using spherical mirrors.