CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR VISUAL ODOMETRY SYSTEM

Estimating itu0027s ego-motion is one of the most important capabilities for an autonomous mobile platform. Besides odometry ,inertial sensors ,DGPS, laser range finders and so on, vision based algorithms can contribute a lot of information. We want to emphasize the fact that stereo odometry is a chain of several single sub processes where each relies on its predecessoru0027s results. In this paper we will present a stereo camera calibration method and with the help of this we will try to find the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. The method was implemented with succes in OpenCV.