COEFFICIENT METHOD The major disadvantage of the polynominal method is the necessity of performing rectangular to polar and polar

to rectangular transforms. We would like to propose a different formulation of the polynominal method allowing to avoid those transitions. It is based on the assumption that the tangential distortion is negligible ( )( = ). The polynominal method

describes the relationship between a point in the disorted domain and its equivalent in the corrected domain: ( ). For hardware applications it is much more convenient to )( ). that is for a particular point in the corrected

perform an inverse operation: (

image, calculate its coordinates in the distorted image space. This approach, called the back mapping, relates radii as: = ). In many applications the function ). is also

approximated by polynominals. Additionally the back mapping is more convenient for implementing image interpolation techniques. From the congruence of coordinate triangles in both domains we may write:

= =

( (

). ).

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