Fisheye-Calib-Adapter: An Easy Tool for Fisheye Camera Model Conversion
This tool addresses a practical bottleneck for researchers in robotics and autonomous driving by enabling easy adaptation across fisheye camera models, though it is incremental as it builds on existing models.
The paper tackles the problem of cumbersome recalibration between different fisheye camera models by introducing a fast and accurate conversion tool that allows direct parameter conversion without needing images or recalibration, verified in applications like SLAM.
The increasing necessity for fisheye cameras in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving has led to the proposal of various fisheye camera models. While the evolution of camera models has facilitated the development of diverse systems in the field, the lack of adaptation between different fisheye camera models means that recalibration is always necessary, which is cumbersome. This paper introduces a conversion tool for various previously proposed fisheye camera models. It is user-friendly, simple, yet extremely fast and accurate, offering conversion capabilities for a broader range of models compared to existing tools. We have verified that models converted using our system perform correctly in applications such as SLAM. By utilizing our system, researchers can obtain output parameters directly from input parameters without the need for an image set and any recalibration processes, thus serving as a bridge across different fisheye camera models in various research fields. We provide our system as an open source tool available at: https://github.com/eowjd0512/fisheye-calib-adapter