2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Multiple Camera Self-calibration and 3D Reconstruction Using Pedestrians
Authors : Michael Hödlmoser, Martin Kampel
Published in: Advances in Visual Computing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The analysis of human motion is an important task in various surveillance applications. Getting 3D information through a calibrated system might enhance the benefits of such analysis. This paper presents a novel technique to automatically recover both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters for each surveillance camera within a camera network by only using a walking human. The same feature points of a pedestrian are taken to calculate each camera’s intrinsic parameters and to determine the relative orientations of multiple cameras within a network as well as the absolute positions within a common coordinate system. Experimental results, showing the accuracy and the practicability, are presented at the end of the paper.