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Therefore, in this paper, an efficient and robust method for a single solution is proposed to estimate the absolute pose for a camera with unknown focal length and radial distortion, using three 2D\u20133D point correspondences and known camera position. The problem is decomposed into two sub-problems, which makes the estimation simpler and more efficient. The first sub-problem is to estimate the focal length and radial distortion. An important geometric characteristic of radial distortion, that the orientation of the 2D image point with respect to the center of distortion (i.e., principal point in this paper) under radial distortion is unchanged, is used to solve this sub-problem. The focal length and up to four-order radial distortion can be determined with this geometric characteristic, and it can be applied to multiple distortion models. The values with no radial distortion are used as the initial values, which are close to the global optimal solutions. Then, the sub-problem can be efficiently and accurately solved with the initial values. The second sub-problem is to determine the absolute pose with geometric linear constraints. After estimating the focal length and radial distortion, the undistorted image can be obtained, and then the absolute pose can be efficiently determined from the point correspondences and known camera position using the undistorted image. Experimental results indicate this method\u2019s accuracy and numerical stability for pose estimation with unknown focal length and radial distortion in synthetic data and real images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22051841","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,27]],"date-time":"2022-02-27T20:48:33Z","timestamp":1645994913000},"page":"1841","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["A New Method for Absolute Pose Estimation with Unknown Focal Length and Radial Distortion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1658-1562","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi\u2019an 710024, China"}]},{"given":"Hu","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi\u2019an 710024, China"}]},{"given":"Honglin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi\u2019an 710024, China"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi\u2019an 710024, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kukelova, Z., Heller, J., Bujnak, M., FitzGibbon, A., and Pajdla, T. 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