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Calibration of a Non-single Viewpoint System

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A non-single viewpoint system refers to a camera for which the light rays that enter the camera and contribute to the image produced by the camera do not pass through a single point. The analogous definition holds for models for non-single viewpoint systems. Hence, a non-single viewpoint camera or model does not possess a single center of projection. Nevertheless, a non-single viewpoint model (NSVM), like any other camera model such as the pinhole model, enables to project points and other geometric primitives into the image and to back-project image points or other image primitives, to 3D. Calibration of a non-single viewpoint model consists of a process that allows to compute the parameters of the model.

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There exist a large variety of camera technologies (“regular” cameras, catadioptric cameras, fish-eyes, etc.)...

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Sturm, P. (2020). Calibration of a Non-single Viewpoint System. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_161-1

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