Stereo vision calibration procedure for 3D surface measurements

• Author(s): Vilaça, João L. ; Fonseca, Jaime C. ; Pinho, A. C. Marques de
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5843
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Stereo vision; Calibration 3D; Reverse engineering
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

In reverse engineering, rapid prototyping or quality control with complex 3D object surfaces, there is often the need to scan a complete 3D model using laser digitizers. Those systems usually use one camera and one laser,- using triangulation techniques; complex 3D objects can cause information gaps in the model obtained. To overcome this problem, another camera can be used. Traditional calibration procedures for those systems normally result in a full 3D camera calibration, involving individual implicit camera parameters, a rigid motion equation relating the explicit cameras parameters of each camera and the intersection with the laser line. This paper presents a new stereo vision laser strip calibration procedure for 3D surface measurements. In this calibration procedure the laser plane is the one that matters, only one set of laser-coplanar calibration points for camera calibration is needed, and a dead zone scan area is considered, since the digitalization arm is mounted in a 3 degree freedom machine PC-based Motion Control with multiple scan paths.