WO2003043308A2 - Method for calibration and correction of radial lens distortion - Google Patents
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- the invention regards a method for deriving a calibration comprising at least one calibration parameter, of an optical system having aberration, wherein due to the aberration, a straight line in a reference image is reproduced to a curved line in a reproduced reference image and to provide the at least one calibration parameter, the deviation between the straight line and the curved line is used in a computation. Further the invention regards a method for image processing wherein an optical system having aberration is calibrated by means of a calibration derived from the reproduction of a reference image wherein due to the aberration, a straight line in a reference image is reproduced to a curved line in a reproduced reference image and to provide the at least one calibration parameter the deviation between the straight line and the curved line is used in a computation.
- Imperfections in a camera optics often create aberration present in the acquired images. Besides spheric and chromatic aberration, astigmatism, coma, distortion and curvature of the image plain may be comprised by such aberration. This may result specifically in a barrel of pincushion like aberration in an acquired image referred to as radial aberration.
- the radial aberration is quite apparent for those low prize cameras equipped with inexpensive lenses. This problem is of concern for digital imaging system manufacturers and in particular for makers of digital cameras and key component suppliers.
- the solution to this problem is typically the integration of an expensive optical system as proposed in the Japanese patent application JP-A-11-313250. Further an alternative solution is to digitally correct such radial aberration as described in the Japanese patent application JP-A-10- 187929.
- a camera may comprise such optical system and also an imager containing an array of discrete element for sampling the image provided by the optical system, such as charge transfer devices, in particular CCD or CED sensors e.g. based on a CMOS technology.
- the object is solved by a method for deriving a calibration as mentioned in the introductory wherein in accordance with the invention it is proposed, that for the computation a geometry-relationship of discrete points on the straight line is provided, an approximation- relationship accounting for the deviation between discrete points on the straight line and respective points on the curved line containing the at least one calibration parameter is provided and the at least one calibration parameter is derived from the geometry-relationship and the approximation-relationship and the calibration is derived based on a single straight line close to the border of the reference image.
- the invention leads to a method for image processing as mentioned in the introductory by which the object is solved and wherein according to the invention it is proposed that for the computation a geometry relationship of discrete points on the straight line is provided, an approximation-relationship accounting for the deviation between discrete points on the straight line and respective points on the curved line, containing the at least one calibration parameter is provided, the at least one calibration parameter is derived from the geometric-relationship and the approximation-relationship, wherein the calibration is derived based on a single straight line close to the boarder of the reference image and the image is reproduced by the optical system and further processed and wherein a distortion of the reproduced image resulting from the aberration of the optical system is corrected by use of the calibration.
- Such correction based on a method for deriving a calibration and comprised by a method for image processing as proposed, may be done in real time for video capturing with hardware acceleration or offline for single image capturing. It was realized, that especially for low cost applications it is sufficient to provide a geometry relationship and an approximation relationship on the basis of discrete points on a single straight line and a single curved line for derivation of at least one calibration parameter for a real-time application and semi-automatical calibration of an optical system.
- the main concept proposed is therefore to derive the calibration based on a single straight line close to the border of the reference image and thereby advantageously derive one calibration parameter. According to the concept such measures are sufficient to digitally correct an aberration of an optical system.
- the geometry-relationship is applied for three points on the single straight line.
- one of the points is located in a left section of the single straight line, one of the points is located in a middle section of the single straight line and one of the points is located in a right section of the single straight line.
- the approximation-relationship is based on one single calibration parameter, which is most efficient for a real-time-requirement.
- the single straight line extends in an outer frame of the reference image, wherein the outer frame may overcast up to 50% of the surface of the reference image.
- the single straight line extends in the reference image at a distance from the border of the reference image which amounts to not more than 30% of a diameter of the reference image.
- the single straight line is a horizontal line. It also may be a vertical line.
- a horizontal line is capable to compensate an aberration of a rectangular image with a width greater than its height.
- the calibration parameter is derived by iteration of the geometry and the approximation relationship.
- An iteration may give a very quick result as soon a required precision of the result may be lowered. Such compromise may be adjusted advantageously.
- a binary reference image is derived to be used as the reference image.
- the single straight line is derived from the reference image by thinning, in particular by thinning to one pixel width. Thereby any image may serve as a reference image. A straight line is extracted in an efficient way.
- Such image system may comprise also an optical system and an image sensor, such as CMOS, CCD or CED imagers.
- the device may be a processor device for deriving a video output from an image signal comprising a memory and a processing unit.
- an interface in particular an interface connectable to an image sensor and an interface connectable to a monitor, may be provided.
- Figure la shows a horizontal line image
- Figure lb shows a binary image after thinning process
- Figure 2a shows an original image
- Figure 2b shows a corrected image
- Figure 3 illustrates the method of a preferred embodiment with a set of extracted discrete pixels on a curved line and corresponding correct positions.
- Equation 1 is the aberration model and R is the distance from the distorted pixel to the center O of the image.
- R R'(l + ⁇ R 2 + ⁇ 2 R 4 + ⁇ 3 R '6 + ...) (1)
- R 2 (x'- C x ) 2 + (y' ⁇ C y ) 2 and the pixel p(x, y) correspond to the distorted pixel, p(x', y') to the corrected pixel, and (C x , C y ) to the optical center of the image respectively.
- the optics manufactures typically do not provide the factory aberration parameters, ⁇ s . Therefore, the digital camera makers often do nothing to the aberration correction, which leads to inaccurate results.
- the preferred embodiment of the method proposes a semi-automated way to derive ⁇ i.
- the derived ⁇ i will help to develop a look-up-table for lens correction that can be performed in real-time with hardware acceleration. This allows users to self-calibrate the upgraded lenses or digital camera makers to use inexpensive lenses for high quality cameras.
- the proposed method gives a robust and computationally efficient way to derive the first aberration parameter gi .
- One input image with a single straight line is sufficient for this task. The simplicity of this technique makes it suitable for application in consumer appliance.
- the aberration model is described in equation (2) and is applied for backward mapping of distortion correction. When shifting the origin to the image optical center and moving x' to the other side, equation (2) is simplified as (3).
- Figure 3 are three pixels on the undistorted image and are located on a straight line Li of Figure 3. This is referred to as tri-linear). That means Pi ', P 2 ⁇ and P 3 ' are tri-linear in real world and shown as points on a curvature L 2 in the acquired image. This phenomenon is caused by radial distortion). In geometry, the relationships of tri-linear pixels are represented as below.
- ⁇ i is an approximation resulting from equations (4) and (5)
- ⁇ i is substituted into equation (4) for deriving an approximation of R' 2 .
- the R' 2 is further substituted into equations (3) and (5) for a more accurate ⁇ i.
- the computation for ⁇ i is ceased when the change of ⁇ i is less than a threshold, e.g. 10 "5 .
- Thinning morphological operation
- step 6 Iteratively repeat step 6 until the change of j ⁇ is less than a threshold, e.g. 10 "5 .
- Figures 2a and 2b demonstrate an original image and a corrected image respectively by employing the ⁇ i obtained from the proposed approach.
- Figure 3 illustrates the relationship of an extracted pixel set and the corresponding undistorted positions.
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