For conventional camera calibration methods, well-focused images are necessary to detect features accurately. However, this requirement causes practical inconveniences to image acquisition for long- and short-distance photogrammetry. In this study, three active phase-shift circular grating (PCG) arrays are used as calibration patterns. The PCGs' centers are regarded as feature points that can be accurately extracted by ellipse fitting of 2π-phase points even though patterns are substantially blurred. In the experiments, Gaussian filters are utilized to blur pattern images, and different standard deviations are set for different fuzzy degrees. Pattern images with different defocusing degrees are also captured. The period and number of PCGs and noise are considered. Experimental results indicate that our method is accurate, reliable, and insensitive to image defocusing.
Planar targets with known features have been widely used for camera calibration in various vision systems. This paper utilizes phase-shifting wedge grating (PWG) arrays as an active calibration target. Features points are encoded into the carrier phase, which can be accurately calculated using the phase-shifting algorithm. The 2π-phase points are roughly extracted with edge detection and then optimized by windowed bicubic fitting with sub-pixel accuracy. Two 2π-phase lines for each PWG are obtained using linear fitting method. The PWG centers that are used as feature points are detected through computing the intersections of 2π-phase lines. Experiment results indicate that the proposed method is accurate and reliable.
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