Method and system of geolocation and attitude correction for mobile rolling shutter cameras

A system for image processing, comprising:

• at least one movable image capture device with a rolling shutter to capture at least one frame of image data while the camera is moving;
• memory communicatively coupled to hold image data of the at least one frame;
• and
• at least one processor communicatively coupled to the image capture device and being arranged to operate by:
• determining row-based distortions of individual rolling shutter rows of pixel image data forming a part of the frame and by using the image data and that indicate a direction of travel or attitude of the camera when the rolling shutter row captured part of the image data;
• correlating the row-based distortions with sensed camera parameter data of one or more parameters of the at least one moving camera to determine a best correlation to form a correlated timeline;
• and
• correcting the image data of the frame by using the correlated timeline.

An article having a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to operate by:

• receiving captured image data of at least one frame and captured with a rolling shutter of at least one moving camera;
• determining row-based distortions of individual rolling shutter rows of pixel image data forming a part of the frame and by using the image data and that indicate a direction of travel or attitude of the camera when the rolling shutter row captured part of the image data;
• correlating the row-based distortions with sensed camera parameter data of one or more parameters of the at least one moving camera to determine a best correlation to form a correlated timeline;
• and
• correcting the image data of the frame by using the correlated timeline.