A New Analytical Radial Distortion Model for Camera Calibration

| Common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-speci c parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating radial distortion is to nd a radial distortion model that allows easy undistortion as well as satisfactory accuracy. This paper presents a new radial distortion model with an easy analytical undistortion formula, which also belongs to the polynomial approximation category. Experimental results are presented to show that with this radial distortion model, satisfactory accuracy is achieved.