December 21, 2010

“Zoom in. Now… enhance.” – results

by Andrey Filippov

UPDATE: The latest version of the page for comparing the results.

This is a quick update to the Zoom in. Now… enhance. – a practical implementation of the aberration measurement and correction in a digital camera post published last month. It had many illustrations of the image post-processing steps, but lacked the most important the real-life examples of the processed images. At that time we just did not have such images, we also had to find out a way to acquire calibration images at the distance that can be considered “infinity” for the lenses – the first images used a shorter distance of just 2.25m between the camera and the target, the target size was limited by the size of our office wall. Since that we improved software combining of the partial calibration images, software was converted to multi-threaded to increase performance (using all the 8 threads in the 4-core Intel i7 CPU resulted in approximately 5.5 times faster processing) and we were able to calibrate the two actual Elphel Eyesis cameras (only 8 lenses around, top fisheye is not done yet). It was possible to apply recent calibration data (here is a set of calibration files for one of the 8 channels) to the images we acquired before the software was finished. (more…)