Suppressing rolling-shutter distortion of CMOS image sensors by motion vector detection

Abstract

This paper focuses on the rolling shutter distortion of CMOS image sensor coming from its unique readout mechanism as the main cause for image degradation when there are fast-moving objects. This paper proposes a post image processing scheme based on motion vector detection to suppress the rolling shutter distortion. Motion vector detection is performed based on an optical flow method at a reasonable computational complexity. A practical implementation scheme is also described.