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- Patent Title: Calibration of cameras on unmanned aerial vehicles using human joints
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Application No.: US16856511Application Date: 2020-04-23
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Publication No.: US11095870B1Publication Date: 2021-08-17
- Inventor: Daisuke Tahara , Alexander Berestov
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Main IPC: H04N13/246
- IPC: H04N13/246 ; G06T7/80 ; G06T7/73 ; B64C39/02 ; G06K9/00 ; G06N3/08 ; G06N20/00 ; G05D1/10

Abstract:
A system and method for calibration of cameras on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is provided. The system receives a set of anchor images of a human subject from a set of anchor cameras and a group of images of the human subject from multiple viewpoints in three-dimensional (3D) space from a group of cameras on a group of UAVs. The system determines a first set of two-dimensional (2D) positions of human joints from the set of anchor images and a second set of 2D positions of the human joints from the group of images. The system computes, as 3D key-points, 3D positions of the human joints based on triangulation using the first set of 2D positions and determines a 2D re-projection error between the 3D key-points and the second set of 2D positions. Thereafter, by minimizing the 2D re-projection error, the system calibrates each camera of the group of cameras.
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