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Measurement and mathematical description of the corneal surface and of the optical properties of the human eye are actively researched topics. To enhance the mathematical tools used in the field, a novel set of orthogonal functions—called rational Zernike functions—are presented in the paper; these functions are of great promise for correcting certain types of measurement errors that adversely affect the quality of corneal maps. Such errors arise e.g., due to unintended eye-movements, or spontaneous rotations of the eye-ball. The rational Zernike functions can be derived from the well-known Zernike polynomials—the latter polynomials are used widely in eye-related measurements and ophthalmology—via an argument transformation with a Blaschke function. This transformation is a congruent transformation in the Poincaré disk model of the Bolyai-Lobachevsky hyperbolic geometry.
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This research was supported in the frame of contract EFOP-3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00001: Talent Management in Autonomous Vehicle Control Technologies. The Project is supported by the Hungarian Government and co-financed by the European Social Fund. This research was also supported by Research Funds (OTKA) in the frame of the research contract No. K115804.
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Fazekas, Z., Lócsi, L., Soumelidis, A., Schipp, F., Németh, Z. (2019). Rational Zernike Functions Capture the Rotations of the Eye-Ball. In: Faragó, I., Izsák, F., Simon, P. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2018. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27550-1_27
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