Super resolution of fisheye images captured by on-vehicle camera for visibility support

Abstract

Fisheye cameras are widely adopted in the back view camera of vehicles and the surveillance camera. Compared to the normal digital cameras, their resolution and image quality are low. In this paper, we propose a method to restore the high resolution images from the fisheye camera by the reconstructed type of super resolution. First, we undistort the fisheye images and regularize these images. Then we super-resolve these regularized images. Blur kernel for super resolution includes the lens blur and the expansion and reduction by the undistortion. The experimental results confirms to the effectiveness of our method which applies to the images captured by the digital camera with fish-eye lens.