Digital Camera Calibration Facility

Digital Camera Calibration is about getting the best geometric information from your images
Because your digital camera can do more.... after the calibration !

Significant improvement
Why should we care ? The Process... (Practical Experiences....)
Today, everybody can buy digital camera from the market.
Further they can be found measuring virtually everything, and Aerial photography has taken by medium
photogrammetric principles are often being used whether the end CALIBRATION OBJECT Exposure from different position to: BUNDLE ADJSUTMENT WITH format camera:
user is aware of it or not. Measuring with camera requisite that - measured by surveying - compensate the distortion SELF CALIBRATION Mamiya 654EFD with digital back Phase One P20.
the camera should have a good geometry production and we - accuracy up to 1.5mm - stable focal length Normal angle lens with ground resolution about 0.3m
talking about the error value no more than +/- 10 microns or sub- - stable from deformation The objective is to check the delta height differences between levelling technique and the delta
pixel. This we have to calibrate the consumer's height taken from stereomodel.
digital camera geometry. The two of stereomodel has been produce, which are derived from the using calibrated
The biggest step change in calibration accuracy occurred when parameter and without using calibrated (un-calibrated).
D. Brown developed both a simultaneous least squares method
for solving camera model parameters and a better distortion Absolute Differences from Delta Height Leveling
model. The same model is still in use today and the method of 10
Calibrated Stereomodel Un-Calibrated Stereomodel
computing the parameters for the model are essentially the same 9
as they were in the late fifties and early sixties. y 8
Y p(x, y) 7
x P(X,Y,Z)

height (m)
Most of the geometric quality X 6
degradation of the non-metric 0 5
Z
cameras are dominantly caused The Results... 4
by the distortion effects. Z=f
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- Certificate of Calibration
The error values are varies and get maximum range between 10 1
- Image Correction from The Lens Distortion
up to 35 pixel at the edge of images. Generally, the pixel size are 0
also varies with range 5-12 micron. Radial lens distortion can be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
approximated by polynomial and is mapped about what is termed check number
the principal point. The number of terms used will depend upon Data sources by Guron Septohardjo (2006)
the lens being used and the geometric quality.
Applying calibrated camera parameter can improve the accuracy up to 3.5 times more better
than the un-calibrated. This can produce absolute accuracy up to 3 times of the ground
resolution.

A close range photogrammetry project

The next element of the model concerns a correction to the non-
symmetric elements of lens distortion (tangential distortion or the objective is modelling the Faculty Engineering Monument
decentering distortion). The magnitude of tangential distortion is with accuracy less than 1 centimeter.
typically less then 15% of the size of radial distortion.
The final part of the model takes into account any difference in Camera : JVC Handycam GRD-50 with 3 zoom lens position
the size of the pixels in x and y and also any non-orthogonality in Image : captured from 8 position around the monument
the image. I do the calibration, and what next... ? maximum distant to object + 8m.
Process : - with calibration
The calibration makes a non-metric camera become more exact in - without calibration (how significant the improvement)
geometry. Some impressive results in calibration has shown the both calculated with bundle adjustment principle
GCP : pre-marking point with tape
capability to reduce the error up to sub-pixel (or less than 10 measurement taken by theodolite
micron). So, there is no need to doubt for using the
consumer's digital camera.

Further, we need to fill in the calibration parameter to the camera

model dialog box. Just click the process and see the difference...
1. Focus Length 5,1972 mm
2. CCD Size 3,4806 mm x 2,54 mm
3. Principal Point 1,8193 mm; 1,1626 mm
4. Lens Distortion K1: 0,001695
K2: 0,0008786
P1: 0,0001017
P2: 0,0002729
Sub-pixel accuracy error from the digital camera can only be
achieved by implementing the calibration.