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Title Quick Calibration Of Massive Urban Outdoor Surveillance Cameras
ID_Doc 44034
Authors Shi L.; Lan X.; Lan X.; Zhang T.
Year 2024
Published ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 214
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.06.012
Abstract The wide application of urban outdoor surveillance systems has greatly improved the efficiency of urban management and social security index. However, most of the existing urban outdoor surveillance cameras lack the records of important parameters such as geospatial coordinates, field of view angle and lens distortion, which brings difficulties to the unified management and layout optimization of the cameras, geospatial analysis of video data, and the computer vision applications such as the trajectory tracking of moving targets. To address this problem, this paper designs a marker with a chessboard pattern and a positioning device, makes the marker move in outdoor space through vehicles and other mobile carriers, and utilizes the marker image captured by the surveillance camera and the spatial position information obtained by the positioning device to batch calibrate the outdoor surveillance cameras and calculate its geospatial coordinates and field of view angle, which achieves the rapid acquisition of important parameters of the surveillance camera, and provides a new method for the rapid calibration of urban outdoor surveillance cameras, which contributes to the informationization management of urban surveillance resources and the spatial analysis and computation of surveillance video data, and make it play a greater role in the application of smart transportation and smart city. Taking the outdoor surveillance cameras within 2.5Km2 of a city as an example, calibration tests were performed on 295 surveillance cameras in the test area, and the geospatial coordinates, field of view angle and lens parameters of 269 surveillance cameras were obtained, and the average error of the spatial position was 0.527 m, and the maximum error was 1.573 m, and the average error of the field of view angle was 1.63°, and the maximum error was 3.4°, which verified the effectiveness and accuracy of the method in this paper. © 2024 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS)
Author Keywords Camera calibration; Camera field of view; Camera geospatial location; Surveillance camera; Video surveillance system


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