Thermal Camera Calibrations

[gchustz]

The driver works great!

I have one question: how are the camera calibrations acquired for the thermal cameras such as the calibration shown in the example calibrations file?

Thank you.

[icolwell-as]

Hi @gchustz, I'm not actually sure how that calibration came to be. I imagine it was done similar to a regular camera calibration using these kinds of tools:
http://wiki.ros.org/camera_calibration/Tutorials/MonocularCalibration

@JWhitleyWork, do you happen to remember where the calibration came from?

[JWhitleyWork]

This was actually a very complicated process involving multiple materials and thermal emitters plus the typical calibration procedure. @driscoll85 and I did this process a few years ago and I think he kept some details (I remember he talked about writing a paper on it, actually, but I don't know that ever came to fruition).