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Is it possible to hack camera calibration without having access to the camera?

Many times we have a stream of video to process without access to camera. Having access to camera matrix would be beneficial for various processing techniques. Is it possible to hack camera ...
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How are the scaling parameters included (extracted from) an essential matrix?

An essential matrix relates corresponding points between two images assuming that a camera satisfies the pinhole camera model, and can be expressed as: $$E=K'^TFK$$ where K is the calibration and F ...
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How to estimate radial distortion from lens characteristics?

Is there a way to estimate the radial distortion coefficients without calibration, given the lens characteristics, such as its diameter and its focal length? Typically for camera calibration a ...
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Obtain motion between image features by means of the homography matrix

I have been reading several really good answers about how to obtain camera pose (rotation, translation, etc), such as this one and this one, but I am not sure how this applies to my problem. My ...
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camera calibration: why chessboards?

Chessboards are very frequently used for camera calibration, this website also talks a bit about why: wiki. One of the reasons is, that chessboards define many natural interest points. Now my (very ...
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Camera calibration using multiple images

I am trying to get the hang of camera calibration. For this purpose, I have mainly watched this lecture on youtube: Lecture 12: Camera Model by UCF CRCV. I believe that I understood the main ideas: ...
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Reprojecting an image to another viewpoint using planar homography

I have an image rendered by a simulated camera in Unity. Using this image and the known (virtual) camera pose it corresponds to, I would like to render a new image from another viewpoint. Having read ...
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Correct Fish Eye camera Radial Distortion and blurry effect at the image edges

There are a lot of questions regarding this topic ,but I am trying to get a more clear picture from these questions. I am trying to calibrate a fish eye camera and I am using OpenCV omnidir class ...
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How should calibration points be distributed?

I do camera calibration for a single camera with a chessboard pattern in opencv for the first time. The focus is fixed. I'm not sure how to do it, there seems to be many questions: How many images ...
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Can you average out focal length from different camera calibration sessions?

If I perform a number of camera calibration routines at a fixed resolution, with various sizes of calibration patterns (like checkerboards), at various distances and get various values for focal ...
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Camera sensor artifacts next to edges in calibration images; what is causing these?

I am trying to image some ChArUco targets using a monochrome machine vision camera with a CMOS sensor and the attached images show the artifact I am observing: 2-pixel-wide bright vertical streaks ...
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What are the parameters of a calibrated spherical camera?

I'm aware if we have a pinhole camera model several parameters describe the specific camera (such as aspect-ratio, focal length, principal point, distortion parameters etc). There're standard ...
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Camera Calibration using Single Input Image

Given a camera, permanently located at the same position, angle and distance from what is being captured, and a single calibration image ( a row of vertical lines [ | | | | ] ), how would one go about ...
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How to apply rotation to extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters post-calibration?

I currently have a set of intrinsic / extrinsic camera parameters, and am using them to project 3D world coordinates to the 2D image, using projection matrix $P = K[R | t]$. My problem is that this ...
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How to warp a pixel patch to another camera

I have two cameras with rotation and translation starting from the world origin and a patch in the first camera's reference coordinate system. I want to warp this patch into the second camera's ...
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