Research on lane-marking line based camera calibration

In this paper, we present a novel camera calibration method which requires only a few easy attainable lane markings in traffic scenes. All we need to know beforehand are a pair of parallel lane markings with known lane width and either the camera height or the length of a land marking parallel to the road. If the camera height is known a-prior, a set of camera parameters such as the focal length, the tilt angle, and the pan angle can be recovered; if the length of a land marking parallel to the road is known a-prior, not only the above camera parameters, but the camera height can also be recovered. We show experimentally that the proposed method is capable of achieving accurate results in most traffic monitoring applications, including inverse perspective transformation and even 3-D estimation of vehicle dimensions.

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