• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.140-149
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• 2016

For visual measurement under dynamic scenarios, a zoom lens camera is more flexible than a fixed one. However, the challenges of distortion prediction within the whole focal range limit the widespread application of zoom lens cameras greatly. Thus, a novel sequential distortion correction method for a zoom lens camera is proposed in this study. In this paper, a distortion assessment method without coupling effect is depicted by an elaborated chessboard pattern. Then, the appropriate distortion correction model for a zoom lens camera is derived from the comparisons of some existing models and methods. To gain a rectified image at any zoom settings, a global distortion correction modeling method is developed with bundle adjustment. Based on some selected zoom settings, the optimized quadratic functions of distortion parameters are obtained from the global perspective. Using the proposed method, we can rectify all images from the calibrated zoom lens camera. Experimental results of different zoom lens cameras validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1999년도 KOBA 방송기술 워크샵 KOBA Broadcasting Technology Workshop
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• pp.125-131
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• 1999

In this paper, we address practical methods for calculating camera lens distortion for real time applications. Although the lens distortion problem can be easily ignored for constant-parameter lenses, in the field of real-time camera calibrations, for zoom lenses a large number of calculations are needed to calculate the distortion. However, if the distortion can be calculated independently of the other camera parameter, we can easily calibrate a camera without the need for a large number of calculations. Based on Tsai's camera model, we propose two different methods for calculating lens distortion. These methods are so simple and require so few calculations that the lens distortion can be rapidly calculated even in real-time applications. The first method is to refer to the focal length - lens distortion Look Up Table(LUT), which is constructed in the initialization process. The second method is to use the relationship between the feature points found in the image. Experiments were carried out for both methods, results of which show that the proposed methods are favorably comparable in performance with non-real full optimization method.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2015

This study examined the feasibility of using an automatic lens distortion correction (ALDC) camera as the payload for a photogrammetric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. First, lens distortion for the interior orientation (IO) parameters was estimated. Although previous studies have largely ignored decentering distortion, this study revealed that more than 50% of the distortion of the ALDC camera was caused by decentering distortion. Second, we compared the accuracy of bundle adjustment for camera calibration using three image types: raw imagery without the ALDC option; imagery corrected using lens profiles; and imagery with the ALDC option. The results of image triangulation, the digital terrain model (DTM), and the orthoimage using the IO parameters for the ALDC camera were similar to or slightly better than the results using self-calibration. These results confirm that the ALDC camera can be used in a photogrammetric UAV system using only self-calibration.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1994년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.510-514
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• 1994

This paper deals with an application of neural network to camera calibration with wide angle lens and 2-D range finding. Wide angle lens has an advantage of having wide view angles for mobile environment recognition ans robot eye in hand system. But, it has severe radial distortion. Multilayer neural network is used for the calibration of the camera considering lens distortion, and is trained it by error back-propagation method. MLP can map between camera image plane and plane the made by structured light. In experiments, Calibration of camers was executed with calibration chart which was printed by using laser printer with 300 d.p.i. resolution. High distortion lens, COSMICAR 4.2mm, was used to see whether the neural network could effectively calibrate camera distortion. 2-D range of several objects well be measured with laser range finding system composed of camera, frame grabber and laser structured light. The performance of 3-D range finding system was evaluated through experiments and analysis of the results.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.179-185
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• 1997

This paper presents machine vision technique with a camera modeling that accounts for major sources of camera distortion, namely,radial, decentering, and thin prism distortion. Radial distortion causes an inward or outward displacement of a given image point from its ideal location. Actual optical systems are subject to varios degrees of decentering,that is,the optical centers of lens elements are not strictly collinear. Thin prism distortion arises form imperfection in lens design and manufacturing as well as camera assembly. It is our purpose to develop the vision system for the pattern recognition and the automatic test of and to apply the line of part manufacturing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2923-2925
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• 1999

The objective of camera calibration is to determine the internal optical characteristics of camera and 3D position and orientation of camera with respect to the real world. Calibration procedure applicable to general purpose cameras and lenses. The general method to revise the accuracy rate of calibration is using mathematical distortion of lens. The effective og calibration show big difference in proportion to distortion of camera lens. In this paper, we propose the method which calibration distortion model by using neural network. The neural network model implicity contains all the distortion model. We can predict the high accuracy of calibration method proposed in this paper. Neural network can set properly the distortion model which has difficulty to estimate exactly in general method. The performance of the proposed neural network approach is compared with the well-known Tsai's two stage method in terms of calibration errors. The results show that the proposed approach gives much more stable and acceptabke calibration error over Tsai's two stage method regardless of camera resolution and camera angle.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권2호
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• pp.56-68
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• 1994

The objective of camera calibration is to determine the internal optical characteristics of camera and the three-dimensional position and orientation of camera with respect to the real world. Calibration procedure for computer vision should be automatical, accurate and applicable to general purpose cameras and lenses. In this paper, we present camera calibration method which meets the above requirements. The algorithm is based on the two-stage method which takes into account lens distortion in the second stage. In this paper, the overdetermined nonlinear system is established in terms of the constraints to all directions and our calibration algorithm is proposed which is constructed by using Marquardt iterations and our calibration algorithm is proposed which is constructed by using Marquardt iteration method in solving nonlinear equations. Experimental results indicate that lens distortion should be taken into consideration for the calibration of the general-purpose lens. With 24 calibration points acquired out of 512$\times$512 image, the proposed algorithm came up with average error of less than 1 pixel and showed a higher accuracy over the conventional two-stage method.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권9호
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• pp.1270-1275
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• 2013

A lot of research about camera calibration and lens distortion for wide-angle lens has been made. Especially, calibration for fish-eye lens which has 180 degree FOV(field of view) or above is more tricky, so existing research employed a huge calibration pattern or even 3D pattern. And it is important that calibration parameters (such as distortion coefficients) are suitably initialized to get accurate calibration results. It can be achieved by using manufacturer information or lease-square method for relatively narrow FOV(135, 150 degree) lens. In this paper, without any previous manufacturer information, camera calibration and barrel undistortion for fish-eye lens with over 180 degree FOV are achieved by only using one calibration pattern image. We applied QR decomposition for initialization and Regularization for optimization. With the result of experiment, we verified that our algorithm can achieve camera calibration and image undistortion successfully.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.299-310
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• 2009

본 논문은 줌-렌즈로 취득한 비디오 영상에 대해서 줌-렌즈의 왜곡을 자동으로 보상할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저, 초점거리의 증가에 따라 렌즈의 왜곡 계수가 비선형적으로 단조 감소하는 특징으로부터 초점거리와 렌즈 왜곡 계수로 표현되는 비선형 줌-렌즈 왜곡 모델을 정의하였다. 그리고 취득한 비디오 영상으로부터 몇 장의 샘플 영상을 선정하고, 이 샘플영상에 대한 초점거리와 렌즈 왜곡 계수는 기존의 방법들을 이용하여 측정하였다. 이렇게 측정한 초점거리와 렌즈 왜곡 계수들로 부터 줌-렌즈 왜곡 모델을 최적화 시켰다. 최적화된 줌-렌즈 왜곡 모델은 각 비디오 영상의 초점거리를 입력으로 하여 렌즈 왜곡계수를 자동으로 계산할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 다양한 실사 영상과 비디오 영상에 적용하여 그 성능을 검증하였으며, 화질의 열화 없이 영상의 왜곡을 보상할 수 있었다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.267-277
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• 2019

사진측량과 컴퓨터비전 분야는 카메라에서 촬영된 영상에서 3차원 좌표를 결정하는 것은 동일하지만 두 분야는 카메라 렌즈왜곡 모델링 방법과 카메라 좌표계의 차이점으로 인하여 서로 간에 직접적인 호환이 어렵다. 일반적으로 드론 영상의 자료처리는 컴퓨터비전 기반의 소프트웨어를 이용하여 번들블록조정을 수행한 후 지도제작을 위해서 사진측량 기반의 소프트웨어로 도화를 수행하게 된다. 이때 카메라 렌즈왜곡의 모델을 사진측량에서 사용하는 수식으로 변환해야 하는 문제에 직면하게 된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 사진측량과 컴퓨터비전에서 사용되는 좌표계와 렌즈왜곡 모델식의 차이점에 대하여 기술하고 이를 변환하는 방법론을 제안하였다. 카메라 렌즈왜곡 모델의 변환식의 검증을 위해서 먼저 렌즈왜곡이 없는 가상의 좌표에 컴퓨터비전 기반의 렌즈왜곡 모델을 이용하여 렌즈왜곡을 부여하였다. 그리고 나서 렌즈왜곡이 부여된 사진좌표를 이용하여 사진측량 기반의 렌즈왜곡 모델을 이용하여 왜곡계수를 결정한 후 사진좌표에서 렌즈왜곡을 제거하여 원래의 왜곡이 없는 가상좌표와 비교하였다. 그 결과 평균제곱근거리가 0.5픽셀 이내로 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 사진측량용 렌즈왜곡 계수를 적용하여 정밀도화 가능여부를 판단하기 위해서 에피폴라 영상을 생성하였다. 생성된 에피폴라 영상에서 y-시차의 평균제곱근오차가 계산한 결과 0.3픽셀 이내로 양호하게 나타났음을 알 수 있었다.