Multi-Cali Anything: Dense Feature Multi-Frame Structure-from-Motion for Large-Scale Camera Array Calibration

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Main Authors: You, Jinjiang, Wang, Hewei, Li, Yijie, Huo, Mingxiao, Ha, Long Van Tran, Ma, Mingyuan, Xu, Jinfeng, Zhang, Jiayi, Wu, Puzhen, Garg, Shubham, Pu, Wei
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author You, Jinjiang
Wang, Hewei
Li, Yijie
Huo, Mingxiao
Ha, Long Van Tran
Ma, Mingyuan
Xu, Jinfeng
Zhang, Jiayi
Wu, Puzhen
Garg, Shubham
Pu, Wei
author_facet You, Jinjiang
Wang, Hewei
Li, Yijie
Huo, Mingxiao
Ha, Long Van Tran
Ma, Mingyuan
Xu, Jinfeng
Zhang, Jiayi
Wu, Puzhen
Garg, Shubham
Pu, Wei
contents Calibrating large-scale camera arrays, such as those in dome-based setups, is time-intensive and typically requires dedicated captures of known patterns. While extrinsics in such arrays are fixed due to the physical setup, intrinsics often vary across sessions due to factors like lens adjustments or temperature changes. In this paper, we propose a dense-feature-driven multi-frame calibration method that refines intrinsics directly from scene data, eliminating the necessity for additional calibration captures. Our approach enhances traditional Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines by introducing an extrinsics regularization term to progressively align estimated extrinsics with ground-truth values, a dense feature reprojection term to reduce keypoint errors by minimizing reprojection loss in the feature space, and an intrinsics variance term for joint optimization across multiple frames. Experiments on the Multiface dataset show that our method achieves nearly the same precision as dedicated calibration processes, and significantly enhances intrinsics and 3D reconstruction accuracy. Fully compatible with existing SfM pipelines, our method provides an efficient and practical plug-and-play solution for large-scale camera setups. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/YJJfish/Multi-Cali-Anything
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spellingShingle Multi-Cali Anything: Dense Feature Multi-Frame Structure-from-Motion for Large-Scale Camera Array Calibration
You, Jinjiang
Wang, Hewei
Li, Yijie
Huo, Mingxiao
Ha, Long Van Tran
Ma, Mingyuan
Xu, Jinfeng
Zhang, Jiayi
Wu, Puzhen
Garg, Shubham
Pu, Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Calibrating large-scale camera arrays, such as those in dome-based setups, is time-intensive and typically requires dedicated captures of known patterns. While extrinsics in such arrays are fixed due to the physical setup, intrinsics often vary across sessions due to factors like lens adjustments or temperature changes. In this paper, we propose a dense-feature-driven multi-frame calibration method that refines intrinsics directly from scene data, eliminating the necessity for additional calibration captures. Our approach enhances traditional Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines by introducing an extrinsics regularization term to progressively align estimated extrinsics with ground-truth values, a dense feature reprojection term to reduce keypoint errors by minimizing reprojection loss in the feature space, and an intrinsics variance term for joint optimization across multiple frames. Experiments on the Multiface dataset show that our method achieves nearly the same precision as dedicated calibration processes, and significantly enhances intrinsics and 3D reconstruction accuracy. Fully compatible with existing SfM pipelines, our method provides an efficient and practical plug-and-play solution for large-scale camera setups. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/YJJfish/Multi-Cali-Anything
title Multi-Cali Anything: Dense Feature Multi-Frame Structure-from-Motion for Large-Scale Camera Array Calibration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00737