We address the problem of calibrating camera lens distortion, which can be significant in medium to wide angle lenses. While almost all existing nonmetric distortion calibration methods need user involvement in one form or another, we present an automatic approach based on the robust the-least-median-of-squares (LMedS) estimator. Our approach is thus less sensitive to erroneous input data such as image curves that are mistakenly considered as projections of 3D linear segments. Our approach uniquely uses fast, closed-form solutions to the distortion coefficients, which serve as an initial point for a nonlinear optimization algorithm to straighten imaged lines. Moreover we propose a method for distortion model selection based on geometrical inference. Successful experiments to evaluate the performance of this approach on synthetic and real data are reported.


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    Title :

    Nonmetric lens distortion calibration: closed-form solutions, robust estimation and model selection


    Contributors:
    El-Melegy, (author) / Farag, (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    420534 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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