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Nearly all 3D displays need calibration for correct rendering. More often than not, the optical elements in a 3D display are misaligned from the designed parameter setting. As a result, 3D magic does not perform well as intended. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Hyoseok Hwang , Hyun Sung Chang , Dongkyung Nam , In So Kweon

We give a principled method for decomposing the predictive uncertainty of a model into aleatoric and epistemic components with explicit semantics relating them to the real-world data distribution. While many works in the literature have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Gustaf Ahdritz , Aravind Gollakota , Parikshit Gopalan , Charlotte Peale , Udi Wieder

Camera calibration is a crucial step in photogrammetry and 3D vision applications. This paper introduces a novel camera calibration method using a designed collimator system. Our collimator system provides a reliable and controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shunkun Liang , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Dongcai Tan , Pengju Sun , Zibin Liu , Qifeng Yu , Yang Shang

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. P. Pijpers

The commonly used radial distortion model for camera calibration is in fact an assumption or a restriction. In practice, camera distortion could happen in a general geometrical manner that is not limited to the radial sense. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

Common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-specific parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating radial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

We show that galaxy ellipticity estimation for weak gravitational lensing with unweighted image moments reduces to the problem of measuring a combination of the means of three independent normal random variables. Under very general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Nicolas Tessore , Sarah Bridle

Accurate extrinsic sensor calibration is essential for both autonomous vehicles and robots. Traditionally this is an involved process requiring calibration targets, known fiducial markers and is generally performed in a lab. Moreover, even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Celyn Walters , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

An important challenge in statistical analysis concerns the control of the finite sample bias of estimators. For example, the maximum likelihood estimator has a bias that can result in a significant inferential loss. This problem is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Stéphane Guerrier , Mucyo Karemera , Samuel Orso , Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

In this article we purpose a novel method for planar pose estimation of mobile robots. This method is based on an analytic solution (which we derived) for the projection of 3D straight lines, onto the mirror of Non-Central Catadioptric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Andre Mateus , Pedro Miraldo , Pedro U. Lima

Recently, the rapid development of Solid-State LiDAR (SSL) enables low-cost and efficient obtainment of 3D point clouds from the environment, which has inspired a large quantity of studies and applications. However, the non-uniformity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jiahe Cui , Jianwei Niu , Zhenchao Ouyang , Yunxiang He , Dian Liu

Camera calibration is a first and fundamental step in various computer vision applications. Despite being an active field of research, Zhang's method remains widely used for camera calibration due to its implementation in popular toolboxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Ivan De Boi , Stuti Pathak , Marina Oliveira , Rudi Penne

Nonlinear lens distortion rectification is a common first step in image processing applications where the assumption of a linear camera model is essential. For rectifying the lens distortion, forward distortion model needs to be known.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Burak Benligiray , Cihan Topal

Distortion is widely existed in the images captured by popular wide-angle cameras and fisheye cameras. Despite the long history of distortion rectification, accurately estimating the distortion parameters from a single distorted image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

Calibration error is commonly adopted for evaluating the quality of uncertainty estimators in deep neural networks. In this paper, we argue that such a metric is highly beneficial for training predictive models, even when we do not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Bindya Venkatesh , Deepta Rajan

The task of camera calibration is to estimate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of a camera model. Though there are some restricted techniques to infer the 3-D information about the scene from uncalibrated cameras, effective camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

A perturbative approach is used to quantify the effect of noise in data points on fitted parameters in a general homogeneous linear model, and the results applied to the case of conic sections. There is an optimal choice of normalisation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Matthew Collett

The common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-specific parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

In coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy the diffraction pattern generated by a sample illuminated with coherent x-rays is recorded, and a computer algorithm recovers the unmeasured phases to synthesize an image. By avoiding the use of a…

We present a novel solution to the camera pose estimation problem, where rotation and translation of a camera between two views are estimated from matched feature points in the images. The camera pose estimation problem is traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Kaveh Fathian , J. Pablo Ramirez-Paredes , Emily A. Doucette , J. Willard Curtis , Nicholas R. Gans