Convert between MATLAB stereoParameters and OpenCV stereoRectify stereo calibration

Question

I wish to convert a MATLAB stereoParameters structure to intrinsics and extrinsics matrices to use in OpenCV\'s stereoRectify.

If I understood http://docs.opencv.org/2.4

Answer 1

As you already found out, both camera matrices need to be transposed due to a different notation in MATLAB

and OpenCV

The same applies for the rotation matrix and the translation vector between the cameras: stereoParams.RotationOfCamera2 and stereoParams.TranslationOfCamera2 need to be transposed in order to obtain OpenCV's R matrix and T vector.

(Quick validation: R should be close to an identity matrix if the cameras are almost parallel and the first element of T should match your baseline between the cameras in millimeters.)

OpenCV's distortion coefficient vector is composed of MATLAB's two tangential distortion coefficients followed by the two radial distortion coefficients.

That said, I was able to compute correct R1, R2, P1, P2 and Q using (R1, R2, P1, P2, Q, leftROI, rightROI) = cv2.stereoRectify(leftCamMatrix, leftDistCoeffs, rightCamMatrix, rightDistCoeffs, imageSize, R, T, None, None, None, None, None, cv2.CALIB_ZERO_DISPARITY, 0)

Note that for data type reasons, the disparity values obtained using OpenCV's stereo matcher need to be divided by 16 and the coordinates in the 3d point cloud returned by cv2.reprojectImageTo3D need to be divided by 64 to obtain metric values.

(Quick validation: when grabbing the coordinates of the same object in the rectified left and right image, the y-coordinates should be almost equal and you should be able to compute the object distance in meters with f*B/(x_right-x_left)/1000 with f being a combined focal length of a virtual camera in Q and B the baseline in millimeters.)