An Analytical Piecewise Radial Distortion Model for Precision Camera Calibration

Details An Analytical Piecewise Radial Distortion Model for Precision Camera Calibration An Analytical Piecewise Radial Distortion Model for Precision Camera Calibration

2003-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0307051v1

Computer Science

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

6 pages, 6 PostScript figures

Scientific paper

The common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-specific parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating radial distortion is to find a radial distortion model that allows easy undistortion as well as satisfactory accuracy. This paper presents a new piecewise radial distortion model with easy analytical undistortion formula. The motivation for seeking a piecewise radial distortion model is that, when a camera is resulted in a low quality during manufacturing, the nonlinear radial distortion can be complex. Using low order polynomials to approximate the radial distortion might not be precise enough. On the other hand, higher order polynomials suffer from the inverse problem. With the new piecewise radial distortion function, more flexibility is obtained and the radial undistortion can be performed analytically. Experimental results are presented to show that with this new piecewise radial distortion model, better performance is achieved than that using the single function. Furthermore, a comparable performance with the conventional polynomial model using 2 coefficients can also be accomplished.

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