title: Really Distorted Stereo Calibration Images OpenCV
body: <p>What I want to do is overlay stereo images together. 
  Given a sample set of stereo images I was able to display rectified images of them.
  However, given a set of stereo images taken for the Microsoft Kinect, RGB and Infrared, I get really distorted images.</p>
  
  <p>The original and rectified images can be found in the link:
  <a href="http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8021/calibration.png" rel="nofollow">http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8021/calibration.png</a></p>
  
  <p>I used the same code for the same set of images. I have tried multiple sets of Kinect "stereo" images and they all came out very distorted. </p>
  
  <p>I am wondering what could be wrong?</p>
  
  <p>The way I am displaying the images is:</p>
  
  <p>I use cvStereoCalibrate() with these two as the last parameters: ...cvTermCriteria(CV_TERMCRIT_ITER+CV_TERMCRIT_EPS, 100, 1e-5), CV_CALIB_FIX_ASPECT_RATIO }</p>
  
  <p>I then use cvStereoRectify and get mapx and mapy of the RGB camera using cvInitUndistortRectifyMap() then cvRemap and display the images.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering if the parameters of cvStereoCalibrate greatly affect the Kinect "stereo" images?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Tyro</p>