scholarly journals Structured Light 3D Reconstruction System Based on a Stereo Calibration Plate

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Meiying Li ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Haima Yang ◽  
Wanqing Song ◽  
Zihao Yu

Calibration is a critical step in structured light 3D imaging systems. However, in the traditional calibration process, since the calibration plate is based on a two-dimensional model, the flatness of the calibration plate and the angle of the photo will affect the subsequent stitching steps based on the feature points. The number of photos also affects the calibration results. To improve the calibration accuracy, multiple photos need to be taken. The primary objective of this study was to achieve the simple and fast calibration of system parameters, so a method obtaining a large number of calibration data by homography matrix is presented, and a corresponding stereo target is designed in symmetry. First, using the relationship between the corner coordinates of the left and right parts of the stereo calibration plate and the coordinates of the world coordinate system, the homography matrix of the left and right calibration plates from the image coordinates to the world coordinates is calculated. Second, all the pixels in the stereo calibration plate are matched to the world coordinate system by using the homography matrix. In addition, we also compared the results of this method with those of traditional calibration methods. The experimental results show that the 3D geometric surface of the reconstruction result is smooth, it avoids the missing parts and the visual effect is excellent. Furthermore, the error range of small and complex objects can be reduced to 0.03 mm~0.05 mm. This method simplifies the calibration steps, reduces the calibration costs and has practical application value.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2265
Author(s):  
Jung Hyun Lee ◽  
Dong-Wook Lee

An around view monitoring (AVM) system acquires the front, rear, left, and right-side information of a vehicle using four cameras and transforms the four images into one image coordinate system to monitor around the vehicle with one image. Conventional AVM calibration utilizes the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to determine the parameters that can transform the captured four images into one AVM image. The MLE requires reference data of the image coordinate system and the world coordinate system to estimate these parameters. In conventional AVM calibration, many aligned calibration boards are placed around the vehicle and are measured to extract the reference sample data. However, accurately placing and measuring the calibration boards around a vehicle is an exhaustive procedure. To remediate this problem, we propose a novel AVM calibration method that requires only four randomly placed calibration boards by estimating the location of each calibration board. First, we define the AVM errors and determine the parameters that minimize the error in estimating the location. We then evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method through experiments using a real-sized vehicle and an electric vehicle for children to show that the proposed method can generate an AVM image similar to the conventional AVM calibration method regardless of a vehicle’s size.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhe Gong ◽  
Jingxia Yuan ◽  
Jun Ni

Abstract Robot calibration plays an increasingly important role in manufacturing. For robot calibration on the manufacturing floor, it is desirable that the calibration technique be easy and convenient to implement. This paper presents a new self-calibration method to calibrate and compensate for robot system kinematic errors. Compared with the traditional calibration methods, this calibration method has several unique features. First, it is not necessary to apply an external measurement system to measure the robot end-effector position for the purpose of kinematic identification since the robot measurement system has a sensor as its integral part. Second, this self-calibration is based on distance measurement rather than absolute position measurement for kinematic identification; therefore the calibration of the transformation from the world coordinate system to the robot base coordinate system, known as base calibration, is not necessary. These features not only greatly facilitate the robot system calibration but also shorten the error propagation chain, therefore, increase the accuracy of parameter estimation. An integrated calibration system is designed to validate the effectiveness of this calibration method. Experimental results show that after calibration there is a significant improvement of robot accuracy over a typical robot workspace.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 4321-4324
Author(s):  
Zhen Qian Liu ◽  
Shun Wang ◽  
Yi Xin Zhang

The calibration of structured light vision sensor is the key technique in structured light 3D vision measurement. In this paper, a novel method for structured light vision sensor calibration is presented. In our method, a simple 2D planar target is used, and the corresponding world coordinate system is set for the target at different positions as well as the transformation relationships between world coordinate system camera coordinate system and image coordinate system. The intersecting line equations at different positions are unified under the camera coordinate system after processing. Then we can use least square method to fit the structured light equation. The experimental results show that the proposed method is an efficient method with high precision and simple procedure.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhe Gong ◽  
Jingxia Yuan ◽  
Jun Ni

Robot calibration plays an increasingly important role in manufacturing. For robot calibration on the manufacturing floor, it is desirable that the calibration technique be easy and convenient to implement. This paper presents a new self-calibration method to calibrate and compensate for robot system kinematic errors. Compared with the traditional calibration methods, this calibration method has several unique features. First, it is not necessary to apply an external measurement system to measure the robot end-effector position for the purpose of kinematic identification since the robot measurement system has a sensor as its integral part. Second, this self-calibration is based on distance measurement rather than absolute position measurement for kinematic identification; therefore the calibration of the transformation from the world coordinate system to the robot base coordinate system, known as base calibration, is not necessary. These features not only greatly facilitate the robot system calibration, but also shorten the error propagation chain, therefore, increase the accuracy of parameter estimation. An integrated calibration system is designed to validate the effectiveness of this calibration method. Experimental results show that after calibration there is a significant improvement of robot accuracy over a typical robot workspace. [S1087-1357(00)01301-0]


2005 ◽  
pp. 123-125
Author(s):  
R. Popescu ◽  
P. Popescu ◽  
P. Paraschiv ◽  
A. Nedelcu

Astrometric properties of images obtained using MSCRED IRAF software package are investigated. CCD observations of M35 open cluster were taken in an observation run between October 10 and 17, 2004 at Belogradchick Observatory (Bulgaria) using the 60cm Cassegrain telescope endowed with a 1kX1k Apogee 47P CCD camera, ensuring to a field size of 6.16 square minutes, with a scale of 0.722arcsec/pixel in 2X2 binned mode. Dithered images are resampled and reansambled into a single larger image for which the World Coordinate System (WCS) solution is recomputed and investigated. .


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