无需复杂设备,用事件流自动校准事件相机内参。
eKalibr: Dynamic Intrinsic Calibration for Event Cameras From First Principles of Events
- 基于事件流的圆格图案识别算法,无需图像依赖。
- 通过法向量流聚类提取圆边事件,实现高精度椭圆拟合。
- 适合需要快速校准的机器人、AR/VR等低延迟场景使用。
生物启发式事件相机因其高动态范围和低延迟特性近年来受到广泛关注。与传统相机类似,事件相机需精确的内参标定以支持姿态估计与建图等高级视觉应用。现有标定方法多为工程驱动,依赖传统图像标定流程,或需复杂设备,使用不便。为此,本文提出一种准确且便捷的事件相机内参标定方法eKalibr,其核心为基于事件流的圆格图案识别算法。通过事件法向量流估计识别圆边事件并进行空间聚类,利用法向量匹配同一网格圆的事件簇,进而实现时变椭圆估计。拟合的椭圆中心经时间同步后完成最终网格图案识别。大量实验验证了eKalibr在图案提取与内参标定方面的性能。代码已开源(https://github.com/Unsigned-Long/eKalibr),供研究社区使用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The bio-inspired event camera has garnered extensive research attention in recent years, owing to its significant potential derived from its high dynamic range and low latency characteristics. Similar to the standard camera, the event camera requires precise intrinsic calibration to facilitate further high-level visual applications, such as pose estimation and mapping. While several calibration methods for event cameras have been proposed, most of them are either (i) engineering-driven, heavily relying on conventional image-based calibration pipelines, or (ii) inconvenient, requiring complex instrumentation. To this end, we propose an accurate and convenient intrinsic calibration method for event cameras, named eKalibr, which builds upon a carefully designed event-based circle grid pattern recognition algorithm. To extract target patterns from events, we perform event-based normal flow estimation to identify potential events generated by circle edges, and cluster them spatially. Subsequently, event clusters associated with the same grid circles are matched and grouped using normal flows, for subsequent time-varying ellipse estimation. Fitted ellipse centers are time-synchronized, for final grid pattern recognition. We conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of eKalibr in terms of pattern extraction and intrinsic calibration. The implementation of eKalibr is open-sourced at (https://github.com/Unsigned-Long/eKalibr) to benefit the research community.
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