Camera Intrinsic Matrix

Backstory:
Hello, I have been trying to implement a Pose Estimation pipeline using the UR3 robot (similar to the Pose Estimation Tutorial). I have been using Perception Package for Data collection and 3D bounding box labeller for storing ground truth. I am trying to use a Pose Estimation Model similar to DOPE ([1809.10790] Deep Object Pose Estimation for Semantic Robotic Grasping of Household Objects). In this method, we require the 2D ground-truth locations of the 3D Bounding boxes for training the model. Then, while inference, we can use a PnP algorithm (cv2.solvPnP()) to get the pose of the object. This can be later used for pick and place as shown in tutorial.
(I am a little new to the field to the field of Comp. Vision so please bear with me :))

Issue:

I have read the documentation for reading the json dataset (https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c…6/manual/Schema/Synthetic_Dataset_Schema.html) where it is mentioned we can find the intrinsic matrix of the camera sensor under captures.sensor–camera_intrinsic. I also checked MathWorks reference mentioned in the same webpage. But there seems to be some discrepancy (I have a doubt) in the JSON captures.

  1. I found some negative value in the matrix (See attached example capture file). Can someone explain this? Is the intrinsic matrix of the camera ?

  2. Also, are the parameters of this matrix not expressed in pixels?

  3. I am planning to use cv2.projectPoints(object_vertex_coordinates, rvec, tvec, camera_intrinsic_matrix,…). So, I can get the rvec, tvec, vertex co-ordinates of the bounding box (from the size) in annotations. So, for camera_intrinsic_matrix do I use the captures.sensor.camera_intrinsic (as mentioned) earlier?

Along with the answers, any resource for understanding more about these topics is also very helpful. Thankyou for your time!

This question really belongs on the Computer Vision forum… oh, and I see you also posted it there, and you already have an answer. Good.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/camera-intrinsic-matrix.1143131/