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Fix bug in calculating camera FOV#1611

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samarth-robo:camera_fovy_fix
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Fix bug in calculating camera FOV#1611
jspricke merged 1 commit intoPointCloudLibrary:masterfrom
samarth-robo:camera_fovy_fix

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#1610 fix

See http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCamera.html#a2aec83f16c1c492fe87336a5018ad531 for the correct formula.
This calculation also affects the PCLVisualizer window size.

Piece of code to test:

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
#include <pcl/common/common_headers.h>
#include <pcl/visualization/pcl_visualizer.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace pcl;
using namespace Eigen;

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  // intrinsics matrix
  Matrix3f intrinsics;
  intrinsics(0, 0) = 525.00;  // fx
  intrinsics(0, 1) = 000.00;
  intrinsics(0, 2) = 320.00;  // cx
  intrinsics(1, 0) = 000.00;
  intrinsics(1, 1) = 525.00;  // fy
  intrinsics(1, 2) = 240.00;  // cy
  intrinsics(2, 0) = 000.00;  //  
  intrinsics(2, 1) = 000.00;  //
  intrinsics(2, 2) = 001.00;  // 1
  cout << "Intrinsics " << endl << intrinsics << endl;

  // extrinsics matrix
  Matrix4f extrinsics = Matrix4f::Identity();
  cout << "Extrinsics " << endl << extrinsics << endl;

  visualization::PCLVisualizer viewer("viewer");
  viewer.setCameraParameters(intrinsics, extrinsics);

  // calculate true camera FOV
  double true_h = 2 * intrinsics(1, 2); 
  double true_fovy = 2 * atan(true_h / (2. * intrinsics(1, 1)));
  cout << "true fovy = " << true_fovy << endl;

  vector<visualization::Camera> cams;
  viewer.getCameras(cams);
  for(int i = 0; i < cams.size(); i++) {
    cout << "Cam " << i << " fovy = " << cams[i].fovy << endl;
    assert(cams[i].fovy == true_fovy);
  }

  while(!viewer.wasStopped()) {
    viewer.spinOnce(100);
    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::microseconds(500000));
  }

  return 0;
}

See http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCamera.html#a2aec83f16c1c492fe87336a5018ad531 for the correct formula.
This calculation also affects the PCLVisualizer window size.
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Thanks @samarth-robo 👍 . I will test this now and provide feedback

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Agreed with the changes and harmless to include for 1.8.0.

@SergioRAgostinho SergioRAgostinho added this to the pcl-1.8.1 milestone Aug 18, 2016
@jspricke jspricke merged commit 8609873 into PointCloudLibrary:master Aug 21, 2016
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