The paper presents a new high accurate camera calibration approach for 3-D computer vision system-named as DLTEAI (Direct Linear Transformation-Error Approximation I). To overcome shortcomings of digital image acquisition
we introduce a modified lens distortion model and a quadratic polynomials of system error approximation based on the posterior compensation in the DLTEAI approach. The stereo vision system with off-the-shelf CCD or TT cameras calibrated by DLTEAI has an average relative accuracy of 1/10000 over the field of view (300mm by 200mm) and the depth (0.8m-0.9m). The absolute location errors are less than 0.03mm