Tangram Vision and OpenCV are partnering up to bring professional calibration directly to the CV community. We're starting with a special offer: New MetriCal users who purchase credits through the link https://hub.tangramvision.com/#/opencv-bundle will receive 30 credits for the price of 15, and part of their purchase will also go directly to OpenCV to support their mission and vision.

So, do that! Read more about the partnership and what's ahead for us below:

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A Shared Mission

You might not know it, but Tangram Vision has an actual mission statement:

"Our mission is to empower developers to re-imagine the world by enabling them to leverage the power of perception and sensor technology like never before".

Verbose? Maybe, but it really does encapsulate what we're after as a company. We want to see you, the plucky developer with sharp ideas about the future, succeed today using all of the tools that we wish we had when we were in your position.

In this way, OpenCV is a kindred spirit. OpenCV powers everything from student projects (which we've done), to design concepts (which we've worked on), to large fleet deployments (which we've shipped). They have that same drive to service, whether that be through their open-source code or their corporate partners.

This shared philosophy has resulted in a friendship that's lasted for the entire history of the company. Today, though, we're taking that friendship to the next level.

Corporate-ly, of course.

Why It Makes Sense

OpenCV is where CV practitioners live. It's the library they learned on, the community they ask questions in, and the ecosystem they build with. However, calibration is underserved in the existing tooling. Most people never get past cv::calibrateCamera; when it works, it works, but it's easily outgrown.

MetriCal was built to solve exactly this issue. It offers production-grade multi-sensor calibration for cameras, lidar, odometry, IMU, radar, and more in a single workflow, with results in seconds. MetriCal's scope goes beyond OpenCV's in many ways, but it still slots perfectly inside an OpenCV workflow. Bringing MetriCal directly to the OpenCV community means reaching these people who need calibration the most, right where they already are.

Here are just some of the things you get from MetriCal:

• Multi-modal simultaneous calibration

• 10+ camera distortion models (including everything OpenCV)

• Fast and repeatable, works in seconds or minutes, not hours

…and you can always read more in the docs: https://docs.tangramvision.com/metrical/intro.

What's Ahead

If the community finds MetriCal truly useful, we'd love to offer more content, more collaboration, and more tooling (and maybe even some target-free calibration too). We hope that this is the beginning of a wonderful partnership!

So to reiterate, for those in the back: New MetriCal users who purchase credits through the link https://hub.tangramvision.com/#/opencv-bundle will receive 30 credits for the price of 15, and part of their purchase will also go directly to OpenCV to support their mission and vision.

Let us know how it goes! Happy calibrating.

Using MetriCal with OpenCV and want to see something specific? Email us at info@tangramvision.com.

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Blasts from the Past

We've done a lot with OpenCV in the past. In fact, you can trace the growth of the company through our appearances:

• Featured blog post, "In Living Color" (link)

• OpenCV Live! feature, "Sensors For Your Sensors" (link)

• OpenCV Live! feature, "Sensors For Your Sensors, Pt II" (link)

• OpenCV Live! feature, "2024 Computer Vision Predictions" (link)

• OpenCV Live! feature, "MetriCal" (link)

It's like looking in an old yearbook. How far we've come, huh?