The invention discloses a rapid three-dimensional calibration method for wide baselines for intelligent monitoring systems, the method is simple and stable, and calibration parameters of a camera can be obtained just through selecting the coordinate positions of corresponding two calibration points and the camera in a three-dimensional scene in a three-dimensional scene coordinate and an image coordinate. Certainly, the result is obtained at the cost of a certain precision reduction, because in the process of establishing an imaging model, a linear
projection model is selected, and a situation that the optical center of the camera is arranged in the center of an image is hypothesized, the scale factors of pixels in the UV (
ultraviolet) direction are equal, and a phenomenon of beveling
distortion does not exist. In the existing production process, the
distortion of an optical
system of a common fixed-focus camera is small, and the small
distortion is acceptable to the demands of
video monitoring. A wide baseline point is calibrated by using two points with longer pixel distances in a selected scene, in such a way, the error caused by calibration point selection is reduced to some extent.