The Design and Implementation of the Lookup Table in Distortion Correction for the Optical System

Abstract

Image geometric distortion is common in a large field of view optical system. It becomes a technical difficulty for high distortion rate optical systems and high resolution image geometric distortion correction. But, a crucial step in distortion correction is figuring out how to precisely obtain the index coordinates and correction parameters, otherwise known as the lookup table. In this paper, the problems in the traditional lookup table method are analyzed, and an improved lookup table method is proposed. The method is based on the traditional lookup table method with the addition of removing the wrong data of position coordinates in the correction image feature points, calculating the ideal image feature point position coordinates, handling the index coordinate out-of-bounds, and adjusting the output order of index coordinates and correction parameters. The experimental results show that the improved design method is feasible, and improves the accuracy of the correction image, compared with the traditional lookup table, the root mean square error is reduced by 93%, and the average accuracy of the fitted position over the full field of view is reduced by 51.9%, and the maximum deviation is only 0.2917%. For the correction of the large field of view optical display devices, it offers good correction effects.