High-precision optical modeling method for galvanometer-driven dual-camera systems

Abstract

To build a galvanometer-driven dual-camera sensing system, it is important to accurately correlate the wide-view image coordinates with the pan-tilt mirror angles for adjusting the incident light path of the zoom-in camera. Existing optical modeling methods assume sufficient target distance and simplify dual-camera optical centers as coincident. However, this simplification is not valid in many practical cases and might cause severe system malfunctions, such as complete loss tracking of important targets. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach, to the best of our knowledge, to facilitate high-precision optical modeling and calibration of galvanometer-driven dual-camera systems. The proposed method takes into consideration the dual-camera optical center misalignment issue and builds a model for accurate estimation and rectification of target localization errors under various optical configurations. Qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our method, improving the performance of galvanometer-driven dual-camera systems for high-precision optical sensing applications.