OpenCV fisheye calibration cuts too much of the resulting image

Question

I am using OpenCV to calibrate images taken using cameras with fish-eye lenses.

The functions I am using are:

• findChessboardCorners(...);

Answer 1

I think I have ran into a similar issue, looking for the "alpha" knot in getOptimalNewCameraMatrix for fisheye.

Original shot:

I calibrated it with cv2.fisheye.calibrate, got the K and D parameters

K = [[ 329.75951163    0.          422.36510555]
 [   0.          329.84897388  266.45855056]
 [   0.            0.            1.        ]]

D = [[ 0.04004325]
 [ 0.00112638]
 [ 0.01004722]
 [-0.00593285]]

This is what I get with

map1, map2 = cv2.fisheye.initUndistortRectifyMap(K, d, np.eye(3), k, (800,600), cv2.CV_16SC2)
nemImg = cv2.remap( img, map1, map2, interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR, borderMode=cv2.BORDER_CONSTANT)

And I think it chops too much. I want to see the whole Rubik's cube

I fix it with

nk = k.copy()
nk[0,0]=k[0,0]/2
nk[1,1]=k[1,1]/2
# Just by scaling the matrix coefficients!

map1, map2 = cv2.fisheye.initUndistortRectifyMap(k, d, np.eye(3), nk, (800,600), cv2.CV_16SC2)  # Pass k in 1st parameter, nk in 4th parameter
nemImg = cv2.remap( img, map1, map2, interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR, borderMode=cv2.BORDER_CONSTANT)

TADA!