Example Stereo Single Camera

Associated inlier features between two views
Stereo disparity image	3D point cloud

In this scenario we wish to compute a dense point cloud from two views taken with the same calibrated camera. Because the intrinsic parameters are known, it is easier to converge towards a valid solution than the entirely uncalibrated scenario.

Because the extrinsic parameters (translation and rotation) between the two views is unknown the scene's structure can only be recovered up to a scale factor. In this example natural features are used to determine the geometric relationship between the two views. The algorithm can be summarized as follows:

• Load camera calibration and two images
• Detect, describe, and associate image features
• Compute camera motion (Essential matrix)
• Rectify image pair
• Compute dense stereo disparity
• Convert into 3D point cloud

Example File:

• ExampleStereoTwoViewsOneCamera.java

Concepts:

• Point feature association
• Epipolar geometry
• Rectification
• Dense stereo processing

Related Tutorials/Example Code:

• Stereo Uncalibrated
• Three View Stereo Uncalibrated
• Stereo Disparity Example
• Calibrated Stereo Rectification Example
• Camera Calibration Tutorial

Example Code

/**
 * Example demonstrating how to use to images taken from a single calibrated camera to create a stereo disparity image,
 * from which a dense 3D point cloud of the scene can be computed.  For this technique to work the camera's motion
 * needs to be approximately tangential to the direction the camera is pointing.  The code below assumes that the first
 * image is to the left of the second image.
 *
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public class ExampleStereoTwoViewsOneCamera {

	// Disparity calculation parameters
	private static final int minDisparity = 15;
	private static final int rangeDisparity = 85;

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		// specify location of images and calibration
		String calibDir = UtilIO.pathExample("calibration/mono/Sony_DSC-HX5V_Chess/");
		String imageDir = UtilIO.pathExample("stereo/");

		// Camera parameters
		CameraPinholeBrown intrinsic = CalibrationIO.load(new File(calibDir , "intrinsic.yaml"));

		// Input images from the camera moving left to right
		BufferedImage origLeft = UtilImageIO.loadImage(imageDir , "mono_wall_01.jpg");
		BufferedImage origRight = UtilImageIO.loadImage(imageDir, "mono_wall_02.jpg");

		// Input images with lens distortion
		GrayU8 distortedLeft = ConvertBufferedImage.convertFrom(origLeft, (GrayU8) null);
		GrayU8 distortedRight = ConvertBufferedImage.convertFrom(origRight, (GrayU8) null);

		// matched features between the two images
		List<AssociatedPair> matchedFeatures = ExampleFundamentalMatrix.computeMatches(origLeft, origRight);

		// convert from pixel coordinates into normalized image coordinates
		List<AssociatedPair> matchedCalibrated = convertToNormalizedCoordinates(matchedFeatures, intrinsic);

		// Robustly estimate camera motion
		List<AssociatedPair> inliers = new ArrayList<>();
		Se3_F64 leftToRight = estimateCameraMotion(intrinsic, matchedCalibrated, inliers);

		drawInliers(origLeft, origRight, intrinsic, inliers);

		// Rectify and remove lens distortion for stereo processing
		DMatrixRMaj rectifiedK = new DMatrixRMaj(3, 3);
		DMatrixRMaj rectifiedR = new DMatrixRMaj(3, 3);
		GrayU8 rectifiedLeft = distortedLeft.createSameShape();
		GrayU8 rectifiedRight = distortedRight.createSameShape();
		GrayU8 rectifiedMask = distortedLeft.createSameShape();

		rectifyImages(distortedLeft, distortedRight, leftToRight, intrinsic,intrinsic,
				rectifiedLeft, rectifiedRight,rectifiedMask, rectifiedK,rectifiedR);

		// compute disparity
		ConfigDisparityBMBest5 config = new ConfigDisparityBMBest5();
		config.errorType = DisparityError.CENSUS;
		config.disparityMin = minDisparity;
		config.disparityRange = rangeDisparity;
		config.subpixel = true;
		config.regionRadiusX = config.regionRadiusY = 5;
		config.maxPerPixelError = 20;
		config.validateRtoL = 1;
		config.texture = 0.1;
		StereoDisparity<GrayU8, GrayF32> disparityAlg =
				FactoryStereoDisparity.blockMatchBest5(config, GrayU8.class, GrayF32.class);

		// process and return the results
		disparityAlg.process(rectifiedLeft, rectifiedRight);
		GrayF32 disparity = disparityAlg.getDisparity();
		RectifyImageOps.applyMask(disparity,rectifiedMask,0);

		// show results
		BufferedImage visualized = VisualizeImageData.disparity(disparity, null, rangeDisparity, 0);

		BufferedImage outLeft = ConvertBufferedImage.convertTo(rectifiedLeft, null);
		BufferedImage outRight = ConvertBufferedImage.convertTo(rectifiedRight, null);

		ShowImages.showWindow(new RectifiedPairPanel(true, outLeft, outRight), "Rectification",true);
		ShowImages.showWindow(visualized, "Disparity",true);

		showPointCloud(disparity, outLeft, leftToRight, rectifiedK,rectifiedR, minDisparity, rangeDisparity);

		System.out.println("Total found " + matchedCalibrated.size());
		System.out.println("Total Inliers " + inliers.size());
	}

	/**
	 * Estimates the camera motion robustly using RANSAC and a set of associated points.
	 *
	 * @param intrinsic   Intrinsic camera parameters
	 * @param matchedNorm set of matched point features in normalized image coordinates
	 * @param inliers     OUTPUT: Set of inlier features from RANSAC
	 * @return Found camera motion.  Note translation has an arbitrary scale
	 */
	public static Se3_F64 estimateCameraMotion(CameraPinholeBrown intrinsic,
											   List<AssociatedPair> matchedNorm, List<AssociatedPair> inliers)
	{
		ModelMatcherMultiview<Se3_F64, AssociatedPair> epipolarMotion =
				FactoryMultiViewRobust.baselineRansac(new ConfigEssential(),new ConfigRansac(200,0.5));
		epipolarMotion.setIntrinsic(0,intrinsic);
		epipolarMotion.setIntrinsic(1,intrinsic);

		if (!epipolarMotion.process(matchedNorm))
			throw new RuntimeException("Motion estimation failed");

		// save inlier set for debugging purposes
		inliers.addAll(epipolarMotion.getMatchSet());

		return epipolarMotion.getModelParameters();
	}

	/**
	 * Convert a set of associated point features from pixel coordinates into normalized image coordinates.
	 */
	public static List<AssociatedPair> convertToNormalizedCoordinates(List<AssociatedPair> matchedFeatures, CameraPinholeBrown intrinsic) {

		Point2Transform2_F64 p_to_n = LensDistortionFactory.narrow(intrinsic).undistort_F64(true, false);

		List<AssociatedPair> calibratedFeatures = new ArrayList<>();

		for (AssociatedPair p : matchedFeatures) {
			AssociatedPair c = new AssociatedPair();

			p_to_n.compute(p.p1.x, p.p1.y, c.p1);
			p_to_n.compute(p.p2.x, p.p2.y, c.p2);

			calibratedFeatures.add(c);
		}

		return calibratedFeatures;
	}

	/**
	 * Remove lens distortion and rectify stereo images
	 *
	 * @param distortedLeft  Input distorted image from left camera.
	 * @param distortedRight Input distorted image from right camera.
	 * @param leftToRight    Camera motion from left to right
	 * @param intrinsicLeft  Intrinsic camera parameters
	 * @param rectifiedLeft  Output rectified image for left camera.
	 * @param rectifiedRight Output rectified image for right camera.
	 * @param rectifiedMask  Mask that indicates invalid pixels in rectified image. 1 = valid, 0 = invalid
	 * @param rectifiedK     Output camera calibration matrix for rectified camera
	 */
	public static <T extends ImageBase<T>>
	void rectifyImages(T distortedLeft,
					   T distortedRight,
					   Se3_F64 leftToRight,
					   CameraPinholeBrown intrinsicLeft,
					   CameraPinholeBrown intrinsicRight,
					   T rectifiedLeft,
					   T rectifiedRight,
					   GrayU8 rectifiedMask,
					   DMatrixRMaj rectifiedK,
					   DMatrixRMaj rectifiedR) {
		RectifyCalibrated rectifyAlg = RectifyImageOps.createCalibrated();

		// original camera calibration matrices
		DMatrixRMaj K1 = PerspectiveOps.pinholeToMatrix(intrinsicLeft, (DMatrixRMaj)null);
		DMatrixRMaj K2 = PerspectiveOps.pinholeToMatrix(intrinsicRight, (DMatrixRMaj)null);

		rectifyAlg.process(K1, new Se3_F64(), K2, leftToRight);

		// rectification matrix for each image
		DMatrixRMaj rect1 = rectifyAlg.getRect1();
		DMatrixRMaj rect2 = rectifyAlg.getRect2();
		rectifiedR.set(rectifyAlg.getRectifiedRotation());

		// New calibration matrix,
		rectifiedK.set(rectifyAlg.getCalibrationMatrix());

		// Adjust the rectification to make the view area more useful
		ImageDimension rectShape = new ImageDimension();
		RectifyImageOps.fullViewLeft(intrinsicLeft, rect1, rect2, rectifiedK, rectShape);
//		RectifyImageOps.allInsideLeft(intrinsicLeft, rect1, rect2, rectifiedK, rectShape);
		// Taking in account the relative rotation between the image axis and the baseline is important in
		// this scenario since a person can easily hold the camera at an odd angle. If you don't adjust
		// the rectified image size you might end up with a lot of wasted pixels and a low resolution model!
		rectifiedLeft.reshape(rectShape.width,rectShape.height);
		rectifiedRight.reshape(rectShape.width,rectShape.height);

		// undistorted and rectify images
		FMatrixRMaj rect1_F32 = new FMatrixRMaj(3,3);
		FMatrixRMaj rect2_F32 = new FMatrixRMaj(3,3);
		ConvertMatrixData.convert(rect1, rect1_F32);
		ConvertMatrixData.convert(rect2, rect2_F32);

		// Extending the image prevents a harsh edge reducing false matches at the image border
		// SKIP is another option, possibly a tinny bit faster, but has a harsh edge which will need to be filtered
		ImageDistort<T,T> distortLeft =
				RectifyImageOps.rectifyImage(intrinsicLeft, rect1_F32, BorderType.EXTENDED, distortedLeft.getImageType());
		ImageDistort<T,T> distortRight =
				RectifyImageOps.rectifyImage(intrinsicRight, rect2_F32, BorderType.EXTENDED, distortedRight.getImageType());

		distortLeft.apply(distortedLeft, rectifiedLeft,rectifiedMask);
		distortRight.apply(distortedRight, rectifiedRight);
	}

	/**
	 * Draw inliers for debugging purposes.  Need to convert from normalized to pixel coordinates.
	 */
	public static void drawInliers(BufferedImage left, BufferedImage right, CameraPinholeBrown intrinsic,
								   List<AssociatedPair> normalized) {
		Point2Transform2_F64 n_to_p = LensDistortionFactory.narrow(intrinsic).distort_F64(false,true);

		List<AssociatedPair> pixels = new ArrayList<>();

		for (AssociatedPair n : normalized) {
			AssociatedPair p = new AssociatedPair();

			n_to_p.compute(n.p1.x, n.p1.y, p.p1);
			n_to_p.compute(n.p2.x, n.p2.y, p.p2);

			pixels.add(p);
		}

		// display the results
		AssociationPanel panel = new AssociationPanel(20);
		panel.setAssociation(pixels);
		panel.setImages(left, right);

		ShowImages.showWindow(panel, "Inlier Features", true);
	}

	/**
	 * Show results as a point cloud
	 */
	public static void showPointCloud(ImageGray disparity, BufferedImage left,
									  Se3_F64 motion, DMatrixRMaj rectifiedK , DMatrixRMaj rectifiedR,
									  int disparityMin, int disparityRange)
	{
		DisparityToColorPointCloud d2c = new DisparityToColorPointCloud();
		PointCloudWriter.CloudArraysF32 cloud = new PointCloudWriter.CloudArraysF32();

		double baseline = motion.getT().norm();
		d2c.configure(baseline, rectifiedK, rectifiedR, new DoNothing2Transform2_F64(), disparityMin, disparityRange);
		d2c.process(disparity, UtilDisparitySwing.wrap(left), cloud);

		CameraPinhole rectifiedPinhole = PerspectiveOps.matrixToPinhole(rectifiedK,disparity.width,disparity.height,null);

		// skew the view to make the structure easier to see
		Se3_F64 cameraToWorld = SpecialEuclideanOps_F64.eulerXyz(-baseline*5,0,0,0,0.2,0,null);

		PointCloudViewer pcv = VisualizeData.createPointCloudViewer();
		pcv.setCameraHFov(PerspectiveOps.computeHFov(rectifiedPinhole));
		pcv.setCameraToWorld(cameraToWorld);
		pcv.setTranslationStep(baseline/3);
		pcv.addCloud(cloud.cloudXyz,cloud.cloudRgb);
		pcv.setDotSize(1);
		pcv.setTranslationStep(baseline/10);

		pcv.getComponent().setPreferredSize(new Dimension(left.getWidth(), left.getHeight()));
		ShowImages.showWindow(pcv.getComponent(), "Point Cloud", true);
	}
}