Identifying the Calibration Points

Once an image of the calibration plate from a particular camera station is obtained, the centroids of the circles must be identified to provide the list of 2D image points corresponding to the list of 3D world points.

In this module, you have a choice: you can use the built-in centroid finding algorithm or you can supply the centroids yourself. The built-in function finds and calculates the centroids automatically.

  1. Explanation of built-in algorithm
  2. Help with user-supplied centroids
Once the 2D points have been obtained, you are ready to run the calibration algorithm itself.

If this is your first time running the VVL, this is probably a good point to stop reading the help and to start the tutorial. If you get confused along the way, you can always click on a button labeled "Help" or the question mark button on the bottom right-hand corner of the tutorial window. To raise the tutorial window now, click on its header or border.

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