A convenient and fast method of endoscope calibration under surgical environment

Meiqing Liu, Dayuan Yan, Xiaoming Hu, Ya Zhou, Zhaoguo Wu

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Abstract

How to get the calibration parameters of an endoscopic camera online is one of the most important steps in the three-dimensional reconstruction and draws great attention from researchers. One of general approach requires two persons and one accurate pre-printed checkerboard, which is not desirable in actual use. In this paper, a convenient endoscope calibration method is presented. Instead of preparing a checkerboard in advance, computer display screen is used as a flexible calibrating-board to display checkerboards with different sizes to fill the endoscopic view. Instead of holding the checkerboard with different posture, the user could hold the endoscopic camera in front of the screen-displayed calibrating-board in various orientations. The whole calibration process can be implemented by just one person, which is of practical significance in real operating room. The experimental results show that such method is time-saving without additional manual intervention. The precision of calibration can be achieved at sub-pixel.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Analysis of Images and Patterns - 15th International Conference, CAIP 2013, Proceedings
Pages507-514
Number of pages8
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2013 - York, United Kingdom
Duration: 27 Aug 201329 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8048 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityYork
Period27/08/1329/08/13

Keywords

  • computer display screen
  • endoscope calibration
  • image processing
  • sub-pixel

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