arXiv:2608.26548eess.SYcs.CV2026-08

用无人机不精准且不同步的GPS轨迹校准摄像头,解决时间与高度误差问题。

Camera Calibration Using Inaccurate and Asynchronous Discrete GPS Trajectory from Drones

论文配图:Camera Calibration Using Inaccurate and Asynchronous Discrete GPS Trajectory from Drones
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  • 将校准问题转化为参数估计,同时求解相机姿态与GPS偏差
  • 算法可处理离散、不同步的GPS数据,精度达测量误差的14%
  • 适合需要高精度静态摄像头标定的研究者使用

本文研究静止摄像头的标定问题,利用无人机通过GPS记录的轨迹来估计相机的方位角、俯仰角和翻滚角。使用GPS轨迹作为标定真值面临三大挑战:一是GPS高度存在未知偏移;二是相机与GPS接收器时间不同步,存在未知时延;三是GPS轨迹为离散采样,需精确插值,且该过程涉及速度估计,构成一个复杂估计问题。为此,本文将问题建模为参数估计,联合估计相机姿态偏差以及GPS高度偏移和时间偏移。针对第三点,设计了一种基于迭代最小二乘法的特殊最大似然估计器,适用于非同步、离散时间的GPS轨迹。由于相机测量误差较小,校准后残差偏差应远小于测量标准差,本方法在推荐的无人机轨迹下可实现14%的测量误差标准差级别的校准精度。仿真测试表明,估计结果达到克拉美-罗下界(CRLB),归一化估计误差平方在统计上可接受。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper considers a stationary camera calibration problem, which estimates the camera orientation angles yaw, pitch and roll, using a drone trajectory recorded by a GPS. There are three challenges in using a GPS trajectory as ground truth for camera calibration. One, the altitude of GPS data is inaccurate with an unknown bias. Two, the GPS receiver and camera are not time synchronized, and there is an unknown time offset between the two systems. Three, the GPS trajectory is time-discrete and accurate interpolation is needed. This is actually an estimation problem since velocity is also needed. To address the first two challenges, we formulate the problem as a parameter estimation problem to estimate a vector consisting of the GPS altitude bias and time offset in addition to the camera yaw, pitch and roll biases. We then develop a special maximum likelihood estimator using the Iterated Least Squares algorithm which can work with a non-synchronized time-discrete GPS trajectory for the third challenge. Since the camera measurement errors are usually small, this requires a high calibration accuracy so that the residual bias error following the calibration should not be significant compared to the measurement error standard deviation. The calibration accuracy depends highly on the drone trajectory. This paper also recommends an appropriate drone trajectory which can yield a good calibration accuracy, namely, 14\% of the measurement error standard deviation. Simulation tests are conducted to demonstrate the algorithm performance. The estimation results meet the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) since the Normalized Estimation Error Squared w.r.t.\ the CRLB is statistically acceptable.

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