To accurately calibrate the lens distortion in linear array cameras
a simplified distortion model for the actual application is proposed
and a new corresponding calibration method is suggested to guarantee the stability of calibration results. The imaging characteristic of equidistant collinear feature points is used to calculate the distortion and nonlinear optimization is used to calibrate the distortion parameters. The experiments show that the calibration results of the simplified model are consistent with ones of the normal model. In the calibrated image
the distribution of feature points gets uniform
the maximum distortion is not more than 0.5 pixels and the correction accuracy is not lower than 9 μm. Compared with the traditional calibrations
the newly introduced method has better robustness.
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