The invention discloses a calibration method of a fish-
eye lens imaging
system applied to target detection, which comprises the step of mathematical modeling of the fish-
eye lens imaging
system based on an
equidistant projection and the precise calibrations of the intrinsic parameters of the imaging
system (including the central point O3(u,v) of an imaging surface), the distance L between the top section of the fish-
eye lens and a theoretic refractive optical center plane, the radial
distortion coefficient K of the fish-eye lens, an image element aspect scale factor i, the plane
torsional angle gamma between a camera coordinate system and an imaging surface coordinate system, various parameter calibration methods and matched
software. The method aims at the
omnidirectional vision system based on the fish-eye lens, analyzes the optical structure and the imaging principle of the fish-eye lens and introduces deformation parameters so as to establish the
physical model of the fish-eye lens imaging system and then deduce the
mathematical model of the system. With an independently-developed calibration procedure, three-dimensional space information is obtained from a two-dimensional image and applied to the calibration of imaging
system parameters. The method is applicable to the calibration of various fish-eye type panoramic lenses, is convenient and accurate and has strong practicability.