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Lens distortion and its modelling is an important factor for the calibration of optical cameras. Most calibration algorithms include a distortion model to cope with the discrepancy to a pinhole camera model induced by the camera lenses. However, for high-precision calibration sophisticated distortion models have to be used and their often numerous parameters have to be determined during calibration. In this work we present a simple, nonparametric method based on smoothed thin plate splines for correcting the lens distortion with a very high precision.
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Schmid, S., Jiang, X., Schäfers, K. (2013). High-Precision Lens Distortion Correction Using Smoothed Thin Plate Splines. In: Wilson, R., Hancock, E., Bors, A., Smith, W. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40246-3_54
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