KEYWORDS: Cameras, 3D metrology, Calibration, 3D vision, 3D acquisition, Telescopes, Distance measurement, Imaging systems, Information visualization, Interferometers
An automatic large-scale 3D coordinate measurement system based on vision guidance is presented. With a high-accuracy total station accomplishing the basic coordinate measurement, a camera mounted on the total station is used to scan the measuring field. The camera can identify the target in the viewing field and provide its azimuth information for the total station to aim at it automatically. Thus high-accuracy non-contact measurement can be accomplished without additional effort for targeting. The results showed that the measurement system can realize automatic large-scale measurement precisely and efficiently which provides an efficient approach for solving automatic large-scale measurement problems.
In order to achieve automatic measurement function, laser scanning measurement system need to ensure that measurement system of the cross and the target center overlapped. To develop the obtaining accuracy of the cross central coordinate, a novel algorithm based on the combination of two-step Hough Transform and Sub-pixel curve fitting was presented. Firstly, Hough Transform was used to detect the straight line of long axis of the cross, and then the central coordinate value of the cross can be deduced roughly through straight line equations. Secondly, take this coordinate as a center, and a certain number of pixel values as the edge length, a region of interest (ROI) can be defined. In this ROI, the two short axes of the cross were obtained to detect the straight line roughly using Hough Transform again. Then, the coordinate value of short axis was acquired at the pixel level with Canny edge detection algorithm. According to the equations of the straight line, rough errors were removed through 3σ rule, and the coordinate values of short axis at the sub-pixel level with curve fitting algorithm is obtained. Finally, based at the sub-pixel level of coordinate values, straight line equations of two short axes was presented with LSM, and thus the coordinate of cross center would be accurately detected with the intersection of two short axes. Experimental results showed that the accuracy of the central coordinates value of cross approaches to sub-pixel level and can satisfy the measurement system requirements of high precision.
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