camera calibration accuracy
Hi everyone,
I am calibrating my camera and I get quite bad results. As of now, I blame that my camera is bad or I am doing something wrong. The main functions I use are: findChessboardCorners, cornerSubPix, findCirclesGrid, calibrateCamera and solvePnP (as very well described in the opencv documentation for camera calibration)
So I started to evaluate how the algorithm for camera calibration works if I add 'perfect' data.
I used 3D CAD modelling software (Rhinoceros3D) and modelled my grids with absolute accuracy, i.e. square sizes and the distances between are exactly 10 mm . My calibration pattern lies on OXY plane. Because 3D cad software has perspective view, I can easily render the results on the screen as it is in the reality. So I generated images as I would capture them in the real world.
This scenario is the perfect case - the pattern is absolutely precise, there is no distortion and there is no camera in the world to produce such good results.
Chessboard 8x10
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9zbzk6bqek...
and
Asymmetric grid 4 x 11
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9abr79py4z...
My next step is to calibrate camera. I passed the images and from calibrateCamera function I get error of 0.115208 px for chessboard and 0.030177 px for asymmetric grid.
Then what I need to do is to evaluate how good the calibration is. For the same set of images I use solvePnP ( used solvePnPRansac with the same results) to locate where the camera is. I made clear solve - no initial guess for the camera position (as this is a new position in the space of the camera). Using rot and trans of the results, I construct a cartesian coordinate system, pass a ray from camera origin, through the UNDISTORTED points and intersect with plane OXY.
Ideally I would expect these lines will intersect the plane very accurately ( in points (0, 0), (0, 10), (10, 0) etc.).
The problem is that I get significant offset of around 0.15 mm, which means that locating my camera in 3D is wrong. I want to use this as base to do 'camera - projector calibration', but if I get such a big error in the 'perfect' scenario, this will never get good results with real camera/projector.
Another test which I did was:
1. For every image after we have calibrationMatrix and deviation coefficients, locate the camera position using solvePnP.
2. Intersect only first point of the detected corners in the pattern. ( It should intersect 0XY in (0, 0) )
3. Evaluate standard deviation of the distances for all of these points to the origin (0, 0) - LOCATION accuracy
4. Evaluate standard deviation of the distances for all these points to their average point - SYSTEMATIC accuracy
The problem is that for LOCATION accuracy I get error 0.165423 mm and for SYSTEMATIC accuracy I get error 0.035441 mm.
These errors are two high . I would expect for both LOCATION and SYSTEMATIC accuracy to get something like 0 ...