A GENERIC METHOD TO ESTIMATE CAMERA EXTRINSIC PARAMETERS

In this paper, an approach to self-calibrate an outward-looking camera from camera images is presented. Ego lane boundaries are detected in the image frame. A straight line is fitted to each detected boundary. Vanishing point in image space is computed as the intersection of the fitted straight lines. A closed-form solution is obtained for camera pitch and yaw angles using vanishing points coordinates. A particle filter is initialized using pitch and yaw angles from closed-form solution and the rest of the camera extrinsic parameters (viz., roll, and translation parameters) obtained from approximate measurements.