Standard Plenoptic Cameras Mapping to Camera Arrays and Calibration Based on DLT

Nuno Barroso Monteiro, Joao P. Barreto, Jose Antonio Gaspar

Abstract: First prototypes of standard plenoptic cameras (SPCs) were based on arrays of pinhole cameras. Despite the array nature, viewpoint pinhole arrays are not intrinsically provided by current SPC calibration tools. In this work, we start by detailing the mapping between the SPC model and a camera array of viewpoints. Then, the mapping is used to propose a calibration procedure for the SPC based on a grid of corners. Calibration involves two steps, first a linear solution and then a nonlinear optimization minimizing the ray re-projection error. The proposed calibration methodology compares favourably with state of the art calibrations and the linear solution proposed for the initial stage of the calibration outperforms the state of the art.

External IDs:doi:10.1109/tcsvt.2019.2954305