室外环境下PTZ摄像机全自动标定技术及其应用中国科技论文在线.PDF

中国科技论文在线 35 4 ROBOT Vol.35, No.4 2013 7 Jul., 2013 DOI 10.3724/SP.J.1218.2013.00385 PTZ 300071 PTZ pan-tilt-zoom PTZ TP182 A 1002-0446(2013)-04-0385-09 An Automatic Calibration Method for Outdoor PTZ Cameras and Its Applications ZHANG Xuebo LU Han FANG Yongchun LI Baoquan (Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China) Abstract: An automatic method is proposed to calibrate an outdoor PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera system with high pre- cision, which is successfully applied to human height measurement in visual monitoring systems. Specifically, the whole camera is divided into a zoom transformation model to deal with the changing zoom parameters, and a fixed focal camera parameters model. For the former, a calibration method based on multiple reference points is presented. For the latter, rotation angle information of the camera is utilized to conduct on-line calibration for the fixed focal camera. For the reason that both the zoom center and the principal point are considered as independent variables which are calibrated in zoom transformation model and fixed focal camera model respectively, the proposed model can achieve high accu