How Kitti calibration matrix was calculated?

Question

I working with other dataset (no kitti), but I need to convert it in kitti dataset format. I can't understand how calibration matrices were calculated in kitti. Example:

camera 2 (P2) calibration matrix from calib.txt:

[718.856     0     607.1928  -386.1448]
[   0     718.856  185.2157      0    ]
[   0        0        1          0    ]

I know, that

[718.856     0     607.1928]
[   0     718.856  185.2157]
[   0        0        1    ]

-- are K - camera intrinsic. But what the last column mean?

I suggested, that it's an offset from 0-th camera, measured in pixels. From kitti sensor setup, I know that Cam 2 offsets from Cam 0 for 0.06m negatively by axis X. Camera pixel size is 4.65um. But

0.06[m] / (4.65 * 10^(-6)[m]) != 386.1448 [pixels]

So what does the last column mean? And how to calculate calibration matrix just like in kitti.

Anonymous Anonymous · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-24T10:36:22

According to the file calib_cam_to_cam.txt(calib_time: 09-Jan-2012 14:00:15) provided on Kitti Website - http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/eval_object.php?obj_benchmark=3d, the above mentioned matrix is for Camera 01(P_rect_01). As mentioned in the paper Vision meets Robotics: The KITTI Dataset by Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, Christoph Stiller and Raquel Urtasun(Section IV B - camera calibration), projection matrix for i-th camera -

P(i)rect = [[fu 0  cx  -fu*bx],
            [0  fv  cy  0],
            [0   0   1  0]]

where, bx is the baseline in meters w.r.t. the reference camera 0. The sensor setup as shown on Kitti website - http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/setup.php indicates baseline between cam 3 and cam 2 is 0.54m and baseline between cam 0 and cam 2, and cam 1 and cam 3 is 0.06m.

Now, -fu*bx/fu = -386.1448/718.856 ~= -0.537165 ~= -0.54 (B3-2 - B2-0 + B1-3 = B1-0)

How Kitti calibration matrix was calculated?

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