The invention provides a multi-camera
system calibrating method based on an
optical imaging test head and a visual graph structure. The method comprises the following steps: independently calibrating each camera by the
optical imaging test head to obtain the initial values of the internal parameter and aberration parameter of each camera; calibrating the multiple cameras two by two, and obtaining the fundamental matrix, polar constraint,
rotation matrix and translation vector between every two cameras with a plurality of overlapped regions at a view field by means of linear
estimation; building the connection relationship among the multiple cameras according to the
graph theory and the visual graph structure, and estimating the rotation vector quantity initial value and translation vector quantity initial value of each camera relative to the referred cameras by a shortest path method; and optimally estimating all the internal parameters and external parameters of the all cameras and the acquired three-dimensional sign
point set of the
optical imaging test head by a sparse bundling and adjusting
algorithm to obtain a high-precision calibrating result. The multi-camera
system calibrating method is simple in a calibrating process from the partial situation to the overall situation and from the robust to the precise, ensures high-precise and robust calibration, and is applied to calibrating multi-camera systems with different measurement ranges and different distribution structures.