ON A NEW USE OF AUTOMATIC MORPHING TECHNIQUES: TO CORRECT DISTORTION OF ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEMS

Abstract. Morphing is a well know Computer Graphic (CG) tool useful in movies and ani-mations that changes (or morphs) one image into another through a smooth transitions. In this work we present an automatic morphing system, based on triangular mesh, to correct dis-tortions in endoscopic medical images. A chess pattern is used to verify the distortion of the endoscopic system and to create the mesh to generate the equations for apply the affine trans-formations on the morphing step. After having computed the equations for all parts of the mesh, the same transformations are used to correct real endoscopic images