Homography of central points for optical distortion compensation

The paper presents a novel radial lens distortion modelling method for vision systems. It is based on single images of chessboard planar pattern, in which calibration points (corners of chessboard squares) are localised. The points, which are situated near the image centre, where the distortion is negligible, are used to determine undistorted grid of calibration points by the estimation of homographic matrix. The differences in the localisation of undistorted and distorted points are used to find parameters of radial model by the linear least square method. Having the distortion model, the dense compensation is performed with support of bilinear interpolation and a sparse compensation by Newton iterative scheme providing subpixel accuracy.     

A distortion compensation method for a conical holographic stereogram

An image processing technique to display a distortion-free reconstructed image from a rainbow type conical holographic stereogram is proposed. The method consists of forming a new set of 2D images from the original set by applying an image process. The image processing method is made through ray tracing equations. The results show that the performance of the proposed method is good as it removes distortion of the image.     

Compensation for reconstructed image distortion using camera model with lens distortion in incoherent digital holography

Optical Review - In incoherent digital holography (IDH), the reconstructed image may be distorted owing to lens aberration, which degrades image quality. A conventional camera lens is designed such...     

A calibration method of lens distortion for line scan cameras

We present a practical method to calibrate the lens distortion in line scan cameras. The distortion correction software based on this method has been designed and implemented in the digital protection of cultural relics. In this paper, a lens distortion model which applies to line scan cameras is derived from the widely used array camera distortion model. Then, a new calibration method which utilizes the imaging characteristic of equidistant collinear feature points is proposed to calibrate the model. Experiment results show the proposed calibration method is stable and effective.     

Central, auditory mechanisms of perceptual compensation for spectral-envelope distortion.

The spectral envelope is a major determinant of the perceptual identity of many classes of sound including speech. When sounds are transmitted from the source to the listener, the spectral envelope is invariably and diversely distorted, by factors such as room reverberation. Perceptual compensation for spectral-envelope distortion was investigated here. Carrier sounds were distorted by spectral envelope difference filters whose frequency response is the spectral envelope of one vowel minus the spectral envelope of another. The filter /I/ minus /e/ and its inverse were used. Subjects identified a test sound that followed the carrier. The test sound was drawn from an /Itch/ to /etch/ continuum. Perceptual compensation produces a phoneme boundary difference between /I/ minus /e/ and its inverse. Carriers were the phrase "the next word is" spoken by the same (male) speaker as the test sounds, signal-correlated noise derived from this phrase, the same phrase spoken by a female speaker, male and female versions played backwards, and a repeated end-point vowel. The carrier and test were presented to the same ear, to different ears, and from different apparent directions (by varying interaural time delay). The results show that compensation is unlike peripheral phenomena, such as adaptation, and unlike phonetic perceptual phenomena. The evidence favors a central, auditory mechanism.     

A method of distortion compensation of multiplex holograms

A new method for making distortion-free multiplex holograms is proposed. The original images of them are processed by a computer to cancel the distortion of the final image. Examples of the reconstructed images are also presented.     

电机补偿式焦度仪镜片参数的计算

针对目前市场上测量眼镜片相关参数全自动焦度仪测量范围小、测量精度较差等问题,研制了基于电机补偿原理的焦度仪。该焦度仪采用步进电机带动分划板做线性运动对分划板的位置进行补偿,通过改变焦度仪光学系统的物像关系来提高焦度仪的测量精度,扩大它的测量范围。测量时放入待测镜片,待整个调节过程结束后,电器部件会将每个接收到的图像进行分析计算后取平均值,得到待测镜片的各项参数。利用本样机对一些典型镜片进行了测量,结果显示所有镜片的误差范围均在±0.02 m-1内,表明本文研制的焦度仪完全符合国家计量检定规程的计量检定要求。     

电机补偿式焦度仪镜片参数的计算

针对目前市场上测量眼镜片相关参数全自动焦度仪测量范围小、测量精度较差等问题,研制了基于电机补偿原理的焦度仪。该焦度仪采用步进电机带动分划板做线性运动对分划板的位置进行补偿,通过改变焦度仪光学系统的物像关系来提高焦度仪的测量精度,扩大它的测量范围。测量时放入待测镜片,待整个调节过程结束后,电器部件会将每个接收到的图像进行分析计算后取平均值,得到待测镜片的各项参数。利用本样机对一些典型镜片进行了测量,结果显示所有镜片的误差范围均在±0.02 m-1内,表明本文研制的焦度仪完全符合国家计量检定规程的计量检定要求。     

New control algorithm for automatic PMD compensation system

A new cross-tracking method is proposed to improve the convergent speed of the control algorithm in real-time polarization mode dispersion（PMD）compensation systems.The cross-tracking algorithm is compared with the previously used dithering particle swarm optimization（DPSO）and gradient particle swarm optimization（GPSO）algorithms,and it is proven to offer the best performance among the three algorithms.The transmission of a 43-Gb/s differential quadrature phase-shift keying（DQPSK）signal over a 1 200-km fiber span using a compensator based on digital signal processing（DSP）is demonstrated via the cross-tracking algorithm.     

Optical compensation of geometrical distortion by a deformable mirror

An optical method for the real time correction of geometrical distortion is reported. It is based on the “fun-house-mirror effect”: An adjustable nonplanar mirror is introduced between object- and pupil-plane and generates a suitable (space-variant) shift of each pixel. The method is restricted to a certain class of distortions, which lead to continuous mirror surfaces (mirror must not break). We also investigate aberrations which are another restriction of the method. Our application was the improvement of TV-systems: before correction 20%, and after correction 50% of pixels had a distortion less or equal than one pixel distance.     

非均匀性和彩色失真图像的同时补偿

针对CCD摄像机或扫描仪产生图像存在颜色偏差和非均匀性使图像质量下降 ,通过多元线性回归分析方法同时对图像的非均匀性和彩色失真进行补偿 ,使输出图像信号均匀且其色度值与输入信号的色度值相匹配。依据算法进行了仿真试验 ,结果表明补偿后图像与原图像相比大体相近 ,且比非均匀性校正和彩色校正分步进行方法计算量小 ,节省时间     

Positive-branch unstable resonators with thermal lens compensation

In order to compensate for thermal lensing in Nd : YAG rod active media, placed in unstable resonators with a super-Gaussian reflectivity profile of the output mirror, a deformable thin glass plate was used as the rear mirror. Unstable resonators with a magnification of M = 1.8 and with one and two Nd : YAG rods inside were investigated. By a proper variation of the radius of the thin glass plate, the magnification of the resonator was maintained constant by varying the refractive powers of the rods. For compensated resonators, the output energy of the laser working at 10 Hz repetition rate and pump energies up to 50 J per pulse was close to those obtained for a 1 Hz repetition rate.     

Calibration and correction of lens distortion for two-dimensional digital speckle correlation measurement

Lens distortion practically presents in optical imaging system using in two-dimensional digital speckle correlation measurement (2D-DSCM) system, and gives rise to additional errors in the displacement and strain measurement. Camera calibration procedure is performed to obtain the coefficients of radial distortion and tangential distortion. The corrected displacement fields can be calculated using the distortion coefficient. The influence of distortion on displacement and strain measurement errors in experiment is further discussed. The three-point bending test result shows that the camera lens calibration method can effectively eliminate the effect of lens distortion and improve displacement and strain measurement accuracy.     

Horizontal parallax distortion in toed-in camera with wide-angle lens for mobile device

An effect of the toed-in camera configuration is keystone distortion, which causes vertical and horizontal parallax in the stereoscopic image. The horizontal parallax is the source of the depth plane curvature. However, if the stereoscopic image captured by the toed-in camera system with fish-eye lens is displayed on mobile device, it is uncomfortable to view because the horizontal parallax contains horizontal parallax distortion occurred by the wide field of view of the lenses. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel correction method of the horizontal parallax distortion, which is one of the keystone distortions, in a toed-in camera with fish-eye lenses for mobile device. We have experimented to attest the proposed method. In experiment, we used two charge coupled device cameras, whose field of view is 48.48°. In addition, the captured stereoscopic image was corrected for the barrel distortion and the horizontal parallax distortion. Therefore, the proposed method provides correcting of the horizontal parallax distortion from a toed-in camera system in order that the users can enjoy three-dimensional effects without the visual fatigue. Additionally, the proposed method is able to apply to toed-in camera consisting of any kinds of cameras.     

图像像素坐标表示的镜头畸变模型

镜头畸变是影响测量精度的关键因素之一。非度量镜头畸变校正方法直接将图像物理坐标系下的镜头畸变模型应用于图像像素坐标系,忽略了非单位纵横比的情况。通过对成像过程进行分析,得到了更精确的像素坐标表示的镜头畸变模型,对现有的镜头畸变模型进行了修正,考虑了纵横比对镜头畸变的影响。通过实验,对新模型的可行性进行了验证,实验结果表明,新的模型能够有效地提高了测量精度。     

Camera lens radial distortion correction using two-view projective invariants

This Letter proposes a new method for automatically removing radial lens distortion from image feature point correspondences of two views. Based on the projective geometric relationship between two views of a planar scene, we have derived a system of algebraic equations that relates the invariants to the distortion parameters to be found. We then propose a noniterative procedure to solve the equations system, and a kernel-voting scheme to select the best root. Being a noniterative approach, our method overcomes many problems with the conventional iterative approach. It also largely decouples the estimation of the distortion from the estimation of other camera parameters and, therefore, delivers more reliable results. Experiments on both synthetic data and real images have provided satisfactory results.     

Correcting non-linear lens distortion in cameras without using a model

Camera lens distortion calibration is the first step in resolving any metric application with a camera. To date, lens distortion was corrected using some existing lens distortion non-metric or self-calibration methods. Using a lens distortion model means defining a global rule to correct the entire image. This global rule does not take into account particular lens distortion effects not represented by the model. Moreover, to calibrate the model, only some features of the scene such as straight lines, circles or vanishing points are used. Since only the feature of the scene used to calibrate the model is guaranteed by the distortion rectification, it is certain that the model will not be precise. The result is an approximation of the real image distortion.To improve the lens distortion rectification, a method without using a model is proposed. Using a set of control points distributed across the entire image, they are corrected to assure all the restrictions of the scene. With both sets of points, the points detected in the image and the undistorted ones, image local transformations are defined considering only nearby control points. Rather than calibrating a global model, local functions are characterized. The distortion correction is defined by a rectification surface composed of local surface patches each influenced by nearby control points. This method is more sensitive to local deformations and allows the image to be corrected in accordance with its distortion.     

Dynamic wave-front distortion compensation with a 134-control-channel submillisecond adaptive system

A 134-control-channel adaptive-optics system consisting of a microelectromechanical mirror array (mu -mirror), a wave-front tilt-control mirror, and a very large scale integration controller utilizing a stochastic gradient-descent optimization of a performance metric is presented. A maximum adaptation rate of ~11, 000 iterations/s was achieved. The system was used to demonstrate real-time compensation for dynamic phase distortions from a laboratory-generated turbulence simulator in a laser-focusing experiment.