Improved Structured Light Centerline Extraction Algorithm Based on Unilateral Tracing

Autor: Yu Huang, Wenjing Kang, Zhengang Lu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 11, Iss 8, p 723 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics11080723
Popis: The measurement precision of a line-structured light measurement system is directly affected by the accuracy of extracting the center points of the laser stripes. When the measured object’s surface has significant undulations and severe reflections, existing algorithms are prone to issues such as significant susceptibility to noise and the extraction of false center points. To address these issues, an improved unilateral tracing-based structured light centerline extraction algorithm is proposed. The algorithm first performs unilateral and bidirectional tracing on the upper boundary of the preprocessed laser stripes, then uses the grayscale centroid method to extract the initial coordinates of the center points, and finally corrects them by calculating the stripe’s normal direction using the Hessian matrix. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can still extract the stripe center points well under strong interference, with the RMSE reduced by 37% compared to the Steger method and the running speed increased by almost 4 times compared to the grayscale centroid method. The algorithm’s strong robustness, high accuracy, and efficiency provide a viable solution for real-time measurement of line-structured light and high-precision three-dimensional reconstruction.
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