Hey everyone I was wondering if there is a way to rotate the Intrinsics matrix received by calibration. So if i calibrated on a mobile phone in landscape mode but now i change to portrait mode how will the Intrinsics (fx, 0, cx), (0,fy, cy), (0, 0, 1) change without having to recalibrate?
Generally, you can rotate a portrait image into landscape or vice versa (remap pixels) prior to feeding it to the calibration algorithm and this will work fine, you'll only need the one K matrix, but the focal lengths need to be exchanged and the center point has to be remapped to the same point in the rotated view.
The same is not true of the distortion matrix (D) parameters which are not axially symmetric, which is a very important component of calibration for high accurate mapping of image pixels to rays in the camera's coordinate space.
The same is also not true of any camera pointing values (extrinsic calibration Rotation and Translation to a global coordinate system used in multicamera setups). Repointing a camera relative to the coordinate system always requires a recalibration.
Edit:
Like this (generally, I made a drawing error in the fourth array)
Note: I may have the rotation backwards, in which case the second and fourth cases need switched (it's a sign reversal on the rotation amount).
Hey thank you for the answer,
I currently get the camera matrix from another library so thats already done but it is done on landscape mode, my question is more on how to manipulate the K matrix in order for it to work on portrait mode too. So essentially how would you change fx,fy,cx,cy
I have a question: does the camera switch between portrait mode and landscape on its own, and then you feed the resulting image into opencv? if this is the case, then it can be helpful to recognize whether it needs rotation and then rotate it into the preferred geometry where your image conversion to cv::Mat occurs. This simplifies the camera model opencv has to deal with. Calibrate using opencv from this canonicalized image format. If you need it changed back to the original orientation for presentation, you could do that at the output end. All this keeps the camera model and calibration model in the opencv code consistent, it handles intrinsic K and D matrices, extrinsic R and T matrices, one simple way with no complications.
To the point, I'd merely exchange fx and fy, for pi/2 and 3pi/2 rotations, and leave them as is for 0 and pi rotations.
For cx and cy, for 0 rotation, use cx, cy. For pi/2 rotation, use ymax-cy, cx. For pi rotation, use xmax-cx, ymax-cy. For 3pi/2 rotation, use cy, xmax-cx. If I understand the rotation angle correctly (the sign may be backward)
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You say that the distortion parameters are invalidated by image rotation, but is that really the case? Assuming purely radial distortion and no sensor tilt, the distortion is symmetric around the principal point, isn't it? So as long as you remap that correctly, should you not be able to reuse the distortion parameters?
Asked: 2019-11-18 05:27:56 -0600
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Last updated: Nov 21 '19
