A Method for Depth Camera Calibration Based on Motion Capture System

With the rapid development of 3D computer vision technology, depth cameras have been widely used. Depth camera calibration is mainly constrained by two aspects: (1) alignment of depth data, and (2) distortion in RGB images. Under the condition of unknown camera intrinsic parameters, a method for RGBD commercial camera calibration is studied based on an optical motion capture system. The proposed approach utilizes the projection from the motion capture space to the depth camera’s field of view, establishing a coupled parameter model for the camera’s CCD photosensitive elements to improve the calibration of the depth camera. Experimental results demonstrate a 33% reduction in errors in the central region of the camera’s field of view compared to commonly Least Squares (LS) calibration methods. Moreover, the method exhibits faster computation speed, enabling efficient real-time calibration of depth cameras with unknown parameters in practice.