How to get bird view image which is synthized four side images?(get AVM: around view monitoring)

asked 2020-12-15 19:32:24 -0600

gunny gravatar image

updated 2020-12-16 10:49:12 -0600

berak gravatar image

Hi I'm making avm(around view monitoring) image by getting four side images from four fisheye cameras. This process has three parts:

  1. calibrate fisheye image/video/streaming
  2. get top view(bird view) image
  3. get avm image by synthesizing four side images

I has completed 1 and 2 parts, but I'm in trouble doing third part. I researched it and I found that it is may related to 'stitching' or 'numpy array'. But I don't know how to do it although I read documentation.

+add) presentresult image C:\fakepath\AVM_test.png

code: (brought from github Ahid-Naif/Around-View-Monitoring-AVM)

import cv2
import numpy as np
import imutils
from Camera.Undistortion import UndistortFisheye
from Camera.PerspectiveTransformation import EagleView
# from Camera.Stitcher import stitchTwoImages
import time

class avm:
    def __init__(self):
        self.__leftCamera = UndistortFisheye("left_Camera")
        self.__rightCamera = UndistortFisheye("right_Camera")

        self.__leftEagle = EagleView()
        self.__rightEagle = EagleView()
        # self.__frontEagle.setDimensions((149, 195), (439, 207), (528, 380), (37, 374))
        # self.__backEagle.setDimensions((164, 229), (469, 229), (588, 430), (45, 435))

        #reset left/right setDimensions
        self.__leftEagle.setDimensions((186, 195), (484, 207), (588, 402), (97, 363))
        self.__rightEagle.setDimensions((171, 240), (469, 240), (603, 452), (52, 441))
        # self.__leftEagle.setDimensions((186, 195), (484, 207), (588, 402), (97, 363))
        # self.__rightEagle.setDimensions((171, 240), (469, 240), (603, 452), (52, 441))

        self.__middleView = None
        self.__counter = 0

        # self.stitcher = stitchTwoImages("Bottom2Upper")
        # self.upper = None
        # self.bottom = None

    def runAVM(self, leftFrame, rightFrame):
        leftView = self.__leftCamera.undistort(leftFrame)
        topDown_left = self.__leftEagle.transfrom(leftView)
        rightView = self.__rightCamera.undistort(rightFrame)
        topDown_right = self.__rightEagle.transfrom(rightView)
        # topDown_Back = cv2.flip(topDown_Back, 1) #flip left/right

        topDown_left , topDown_right = self.__reScale(topDown_left, topDown_right)
        # stitchingResult = self.__startStitching(topDown_Front)
        middleView = self.__getMiddleView(topDown_left)
        birdView = np.hstack((topDown_left, middleView, topDown_right))
        return birdView

    def __reScale(self, topDown_left, topDown_right):
        width_leftView = topDown_left.shape[1]
        width_rightView = topDown_right.shape[1]
        height_leftView = topDown_left.shape[0]
        height_rightView = topDown_right.shape[0]
        if height_leftView > height_rightView:
            newHeight = height_rightView
            ratio = height_rightView/height_leftView
            newWidth = int(ratio * width_leftView)
            topDown_left = cv2.resize(topDown_left, (newWidth, newHeight))
        else:
            newHeight = height_leftView
            ratio = height_leftView/height_rightView
            newWidth = int(ratio * width_rightView)
            topDown_right = cv2.resize(topDown_right, (newWidth, newHeight))

        return topDown_left, topDown_right

    def __getMiddleView(self, topDown_left):
        # the length of the image represents the distance in front or back of the car
        width_leftView = topDown_left.shape[1]
        if self.__middleView is None:
            realWidth_leftView = 13 # unit is cm
            realWidth_MiddleView = 29.5 # unit is cm
            ratio = int(width_leftView/realWidth_leftView)
            width_MiddleView = int(realWidth_MiddleView * ratio)
            height_MiddleView = int(topDown_left.shape[0])  
            self.__middleView = np.zeros((height_MiddleView, width_MiddleView//2, 3), np.uint8)
            # print(ratio)
        # else:
        #     #  self.__middleView[0:stitchingResult.shape[0], :]

        return self.__middleView

    # def __startStitching(self, accView):
    #     if self.bottom is None:
    #         self.bottom = accView
    #         return None
    #     else:
    #         # time.sleep(0.5)
    #         self.upper = accView
    #         self.bottom = self.stitcher.stitch(self.bottom, self.upper)
    #         cv2.imshow("Result", self.bottom)
    #         height = accView.shape[0]
    #         return self.bottom[height:self.bottom.shape[0], :]

If you know anythings about it, please comment and share your thoughts. Thank you for your reading. (I'm using opencv, python, raspberrypi 4B)

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Comments

please be more explicit, about how the outcome should look like. do you want an equirectangular projection ?

how much do your images overlap ? are the cameras fixed ? showing a set of example images might be useful here

isit something like this ?

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2020-12-16 03:16:04 -0600 )edit

OH, first thank you for your comments and interests about my problem:)

yes, those images perfectly show what I mentioned. 4 corner overlaps exist(topleft, topright, bottomleft, bottomright).4 cameras are fixed. I don't know how to synthesize four images, and present result image is below:

result image

I used np.hstack for stitch three view(leftview, middleview, rightview)

Thank you for reading:)

gunny gravatar imagegunny ( 2020-12-16 08:07:19 -0600 )edit

i'm quite sure you need some sort of remapping for this.

unfortunately, i'm afraid, the exact projection formulas are some kind of "trade secret" here ;(

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2020-12-16 10:46:37 -0600 )edit

oh, LoL That's why I could not find open source in effort of 2 week... (BTW I used "remapping" part by undistorting the fisheye images.)

Although I don't find exact solution about it, thank you for your attention!

gunny gravatar imagegunny ( 2020-12-16 21:44:06 -0600 )edit