An Efficient Calibration Method for a Stereo Camera System with Heterogeneous Lenses Using an Embedded Checkerboard Pattern

We present two simple approaches to calibrate a stereo camera setup with heterogeneous lenses: a wide-angle fish-eye lens and a narrow-angle lens in left and right sides,respectively. instead of using a conventional black-white checkerboard pattern,we design an embedded checkerboard pattern by combining two differently colored patterns. in both approaches,we split the captured stereo images into rgb channels and extract r and inverted g channels from left and right camera images,respectively. in our first approach,we consider the checkerboard pattern as the world coordinate system and calculate left and right transformation matrices corresponding to it. we use these two transformation matrices to estimate the relative pose of the right camera by multiplying the inversed left transformation with the right. in the second approach,we calculate a planar homography transformation to identify common object points in left-right image pairs and treat them with the well-known zhangs camera calibration method. we analyze the robustness of these two approaches by comparing reprojection errors and image rectification results. experimental results show that the second method is more accurate than the first one. © 2017 pathum rathnayaka et al.