Circle Targets

If put to a quality test, our calibration targets are sure to come on top, thanks to their impeccable construction. Our circle targets are crafted from ⅛” rigid Dibond, ensuring each target has just the correct specifications to withstand indoor and outdoor usage.

With our quality products, you can take your project goals to the next level thanks to the high precision nature of our calibration targets. Not only are they ultra-stiff and flat, but they are also lightweight to ensure you make the most out of your calibration applications.

Given the competitive thermal and rigidity targets, expect to enjoy a quality performance.

All target patterns undergo a flood white edge-to-edge print process, giving them an authentic matte finish. If you are looking for items suitable for high-accuracy machine vision applications needing impeccable optical performance plus compatible physical capabilities, our products will have you covered.

Dibond signage has forever been an industry standard for indoor and outdoor business signs. The material is water, weather, warp resistant and rust proof. It's ultra flat and rigid structure makes Dibond the perfect material for calibration targets.

• Light weight
• Ultra flat surface
• Anti-reflective surface (flood white finish) pitch black on pure white

We present quality calibration target grids geared to offer you precise localization of saddle points. The orientations used ensure the robust indexation on partly visible target grids and multifaceted objects. These quality grid patterns ensure superior edge detection to ensure your camera calibration processes are always perfect.

Accurate camera calibration is crucial to ensure image precision much-needed in computer vision tasks and many machine types. As you go about picking a suitable target grid for your application, here are some of the best practices to keep in mind.

After extensive experimentation combined with theoretical considerations, we can confidently recommend these considerations to any photographer looking for high image accuracy.

Picking a suitable calibration target grid size is of prime importance. Your target grid needs to be a size capable of constraining parameters adequately.

Targets should occupy half of your total area as viewed fronto-parallel in a camera image.

Ensure your target grid has a dense feature count. Fine grid patterns are excellent for camera calibration. However, using targets with very fine patterns may be challenging to detect.

To enjoy the best camera calibration results, use fine target grid patterns on 3MPx cameras and above. Also, ensure your lighting is superb and in check for easy calibration.

Why not try out uniquely coded targets like CharuCo patterns? The CharuCo grid allows you to capture observations at the center and up to your camera lens and sensor's extreme periphery. Therefore, you can adequately obtain distortion parameters.

What's more, such a target allows you to get data even when some feature points fail to achieve the other requirements.

While you may select a durable and good target, you may still fail to obtain the performance you expect from your grid. With the vast experience we have in calibration, coming across numerous mistakes when using grid patterns is one of our enjoyed advantages.

Let's help you tune up your camera calibration process and avoid common target usage mistakes.

Calibrate your camera at roughly the working distance of your last application. Focus your camera at this particular distance, and don't change your lens focus once you finish calibration.

Capture the target grid images from multiple tilts and locations. Adjust the target pattern's position to ensure total coverage of your image area.

You can properly determine lens distortion using fronto-parallel photos. However, the estimation of your focal length depends on studying foreshortening.

Take both fronto-parallel pictures and images of your target in both vertically tilted and horizontally tilted positions of up to 45 degrees from the baseline. Tilting past 45 degrees is unwise as it negatively impacts the accuracy of feature localization, and it may lead to biased camera calibration.

While many photographers tend to overlook lighting while calibrating their cameras, adequate lighting is a factor impacting calibration accuracy.

Illuminate your calibration target with controlled lighting and in a diffuse manner. Strong point light sources result in uneven illumination. This can cause the failure of detecting some points while also limiting the utilization of the dynamic range of your camera.

Improper lighting is not only about point sources, as shadows can have a similar limiting effect.

Ample target observations are necessary for proper calibration. Typically, you need a minimum of six target images for fairly accurate calibration. If you are using a distortion model or have a higher-order camera, taking more pictures of the target will ensure a better calibration result.

Accurate camera calibration also requires a proper camera and target mounting. Mount your camera and grid pattern while lying horizontally on firm support or vertically. This way, you can minimize the amount of bow and distortion in large targets.

Another placement tip is to consider adjusting your camera position instead of your target grid. Try not to touch your camera while you take the grid pattern photos. Moreover, ensure you use legit tripod support.

Carefully study your reprojection errors for both per-feature and per-view incidences. If any reprojection error seems like an outlier, remove it and repeat the calibration process.

Take time looking at each reprojection error. What is the error magnitude and direction? What is their relation with the position? Ideally, the position should not correlate to the former two but instead, point haphazardly in undefined directions.

With good software, you can get powerful visualizations for proper reprojected error investigation and analysis.

Getting low reproduction errors does not automatically define a superb camera calibration. A low error is a mere indication that you can describe the model you used with the available evidence/ data.

The failure to obtain camera calibration accuracy even with low reproduction errors can result from overfitting. Parameter uncertainties point to the extent of constraining the used camera model.

Finally, know that calibration accuracy primarily depends on the calibration target grid used. Inkjet and laser printed targets are only ideal for testing and result validation.

Our quality grid patterns available in various sizes, and both coarse and fine options ensure you calibrate your camera with ease.