1. Within a digital image acquisition apparatus comprising a non-linear, wide-angled lens and an imaging sensor, a method of enhancing a scene containing one or more off-center peripheral regions, the method comprising: using a processor; acquiring an initial distorted image with a large field of view, including using a non-linear, wide-angled lens and an imaging sensor; extracting one or more distorted regions within said initial distorted image in accordance with known distortion characteristics of a configuration of the non-linear, wide-angled lens and the imaging sensor; applying a geometric correction to reconstruct said one or more distorted regions into an approximately rectangular frame of reference as one or more respectively reconstructed regions within said large field of view and corresponding to one or more off-center reconstructed regions of a scene captured as said initial distorted image, said one or more off-center reconstructed regions having been imaged through a different region of the non-linear, wide angled lens than a center region, and said one or more off-center reconstructed regions having been captured as one or more groups of pixels at one or more different regions of said same imaging sensor that has also captured a non-distorted or less-distorted center region within said large field of view; determining a quality of reconstructed pixels, relative to pixels of the initial distorted image, within said one or more reconstructed regions; and selectively applying image analysis to said one or more reconstructed regions based on the quality of the reconstructed pixels.