chessboard_camera_calib.h

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#ifndef mrpt_vision_chessboard_camera_calib_H
#define mrpt_vision_chessboard_camera_calib_H

#include <mrpt/utils/CImage.h>

#include <mrpt/vision/types.h>

#include <mrpt/vision/link_pragmas.h>

namespace mrpt
{
        namespace vision
        {
                using namespace mrpt::utils;

                /** \addtogroup chessboard_calib Chessboard calibration 
                  *  \ingroup mrpt_vision_grp
                  *  @{  */

                /** Data associated to each image in the calibration process mrpt::vision::checkerBoardCameraCalibration (All the information can be left empty and will be filled up in the calibration method).
                  */
                struct VISION_IMPEXP TImageCalibData
                {
                        CImage  img_original;     //!< This image will be automatically loaded from the file name passed to checkerBoardCameraCalibration
                        CImage  img_checkboard;   //!< At output, this will contain the detected checkerboard overprinted to the image.
                        CImage  img_rectified;    //!< At output, this will be the rectified image
                        std::vector<mrpt::utils::TPixelCoordf>  detected_corners; //!< At output, the detected corners (x,y) in pixel units.
                        mrpt::poses::CPose3D                    reconstructed_camera_pose;   //!< At output, the reconstructed pose of the camera.
                        std::vector<TPixelCoordf>               projectedPoints_distorted;   //!< At output, only will have an empty vector if the checkerboard was not found in this image, or the predicted (reprojected) corners, which were used to estimate the average square error.
                        std::vector<TPixelCoordf>               projectedPoints_undistorted; //!< At output, like projectedPoints_distorted but for the undistorted image.
                };

                /**  A list of images, used in checkerBoardCameraCalibration
                  * \sa checkerBoardCameraCalibration
                  */
                typedef std::map<std::string,TImageCalibData> TCalibrationImageList;

                /** Performs a camera calibration (computation of projection and distortion parameters) from a sequence of captured images of a checkerboard.
                  * \param input_images [IN/OUT] At input, this list must have one entry for each image to process. At output the original, detected checkboard and rectified images can be found here. See TImageCalibData.
                  * \param check_size_x [IN] The number of squares in the checkerboard in the X direction.
                  * \param check_size_y [IN] The number of squares in the checkerboard in the Y direction.
                  * \param check_squares_length_X_meters [IN] The size of each square in the checkerboard, in meters, in the X axis.
                  * \param check_squares_length_Y_meters [IN] This will typically be equal to check_squares_length_X_meters.
                  * \param intrinsicParams [OUT] The 3x3 intrinsic parameters matrix. See http://www.mrpt.org/Camera_Parameters
                  * \param distortionParams [OUT] The 1x4 vector of distortion parameters: k1 k2 p1 p2. See http://www.mrpt.org/Camera_Parameters
                  * \param normalize_image [IN] Select OpenCV flag
                  * \param out_MSE  [OUT] If set to !=NULL, the mean square error of the reprojection will be stored here (in pixel units).
                  * \param skipDrawDetectedImgs [IN] Whether to skip the generation of the undistorted and detected images in each TImageCalibData
                  * \param useScaramuzzaAlternativeDetector [IN] Whether to use an alternative detector. See CImage::findChessboardCorners for more deatails and references.
                  * \sa The <a href="http://www.mrpt.org/Application:camera-calib-gui" >camera-calib-gui application</a> is a user-friendly GUI to this class.
                  * \return false on any error (more info will be dumped to cout), or true on success.
                  * \sa CImage::findChessboardCorners
                  */
                bool VISION_IMPEXP checkerBoardCameraCalibration(
                        TCalibrationImageList &images,
                        unsigned int  check_size_x,
                        unsigned int  check_size_y,
                        double        check_squares_length_X_meters,
                        double        check_squares_length_Y_meters,
                        mrpt::utils::TCamera   &out_camera_params,
                        bool            normalize_image = true,
                        double            *out_MSE = NULL,
                        bool               skipDrawDetectedImgs = false,
                        bool                       useScaramuzzaAlternativeDetector = false
                        );

                /** Performs a camera calibration (computation of projection and distortion parameters) from a sequence of captured images of a checkerboard.
                  * \param input_images [IN/OUT] At input, this list must have one entry for each image to process. At output the original, detected checkboard and rectified images can be found here. See TImageCalibData.
                  * \param check_size_x [IN] The number of squares in the checkerboard in the X direction.
                  * \param check_size_y [IN] The number of squares in the checkerboard in the Y direction.
                  * \param check_squares_length_X_meters [IN] The size of each square in the checkerboard, in meters, in the X axis.
                  * \param check_squares_length_Y_meters [IN] This will typically be equal to check_squares_length_X_meters.
                  * \param intrinsicParams [OUT] The 3x3 intrinsic parameters matrix. See http://www.mrpt.org/Camera_Parameters
                  * \param distortionParams [OUT] The 1x4 vector of distortion parameters: k1 k2 p1 p2. See http://www.mrpt.org/Camera_Parameters
                  * \param normalize_image [IN] Select OpenCV flag
                  * \param out_MSE  [OUT] If set to !=NULL, the mean square error of the reprojection will be stored here (in pixel units).
                  * \param skipDrawDetectedImgs [IN] Whether to skip the generation of the undistorted and detected images in each TImageCalibData
                  * \param useScaramuzzaAlternativeDetector [IN] Whether to use an alternative detector. See CImage::findChessboardCorners for more deatails and references.
                  * \sa The <a href="http://www.mrpt.org/Application:camera-calib-gui" >camera-calib-gui application</a> is a user-friendly GUI to this class.
                  * \return false on any error (more info will be dumped to cout), or true on success.
                  * \sa CImage::findChessboardCorners
                  */
                bool VISION_IMPEXP checkerBoardCameraCalibration(
                        TCalibrationImageList &images,
                        unsigned int  check_size_x,
                        unsigned int  check_size_y,
                        double        check_squares_length_X_meters,
                        double        check_squares_length_Y_meters,
                        CMatrixDouble33                 &intrinsicParams,
                        std::vector<double>             &distortionParams,
                        bool            normalize_image = true,
                        double            *out_MSE = NULL,
                        bool               skipDrawDetectedImgs = false,
                        bool                       useScaramuzzaAlternativeDetector = false
                        );

                /** @}  */ // end of grouping

        }
}


#endif