Learning Eye-in-Hand Camera Calibration from a Single ImageDownload PDF

Published: 13 Sept 2021, Last Modified: 12 Mar 2024CoRL2021 PosterReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Camera Calibration, Robot Manipulation, Sim-to-Real
Abstract: Eye-in-hand camera calibration is a fundamental and long-studied problem in robotics. We present a study on using learning-based methods for solving this problem online from a single RGB image, whilst training our models with entirely synthetic data. We study three main approaches: one direct regression model that directly predicts the extrinsic matrix from an image, one sparse correspondence model that regresses 2D keypoints and then uses PnP, and one dense correspondence model that uses regressed depth and segmentation maps to enable ICP pose estimation. In our experiments, we benchmark these methods against each other and against well-established classical methods, to find the surprising result that direct regression outperforms other approaches, and we perform noise-sensitivity analysis to gain further insights into these results.
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