how to calculate field of view of the camera from camera intrinsic matrix?

11
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I got camera intrinsic matrix and distortion parameters using camera calibration.

The unit of the focal length is pixels, i guess.

Then, how can i calculate field of view (along y) ?

Is this formula right?

double fov_y = 2*atan(height/2/fy)*180/CV_PI;

I'll use it to parameters of 

gluPerspective()
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openglcameracomputer-visioncamera-calibration

1 Answers

24
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OpenCV has a function that does this. Looking at the implementation (available on GitHub) we have given an image with dimensions w x h and a camera matrix:

    camera intrinsic matrix

the equations for the field of view are:

field of view y    field of view x