I have a rectangular target of known dimensions and location on a wall, and a mobile camera on a robot. As the robot is driving around the room, I need to locate the target and compute the location of the camera and its pose. As a further twist, the camera's elevation and azimuth can be changed using servos. I am able to locate the target using OpenCV, but I am still fuzzy on calculating the camera's position (actually, I've gotten a flat spot on my forehead from banging my head against a wall for the last week). Here is what I am doing:
- Read in previously computed camera intrinsics file
- Get the pixel coordinates of the 4 points of the target rectangle from the contour
- Call solvePnP with the world coordinates of the rectangle, the pixel coordinates, the camera matrix and the distortion matrix
- Call projectPoints with the rotation and translation vectors
- ???
I have read the OpenCV book, but I guess I'm just missing something on how to use the projected points, rotation and translation vectors to compute the world coordinates of the camera and its pose (I'm not a math wiz) :-(
2013-04-02 Following the advice from "morynicz", I have written this simple standalone program.
#include <Windows.h>
#include "opencv\cv.h"
using namespace cv;
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
const char *calibration_filename = argc >= 2 ? argv [1] : "M1011_camera.xml";
FileStorage camera_data (calibration_filename, FileStorage::READ);
Mat camera_intrinsics, distortion;
vector<Point3d> world_coords;
vector<Point2d> pixel_coords;
Mat rotation_vector, translation_vector, rotation_matrix, inverted_rotation_matrix, cw_translate;
Mat cw_transform = cv::Mat::eye (4, 4, CV_64FC1);
// Read camera data
camera_data ["camera_matrix"] >> camera_intrinsics;
camera_data ["distortion_coefficients"] >> distortio