Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera
3D imaging with Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras is a promising recent technique which allows 3D point clouds to be acquired at video frame rates. However, the distance measurements of these devices are often affected by some systematic errors which decrease the quality of the acquired data. In order to...
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| author | Fulvio Rinaudo Roberto Chiabrando Dario Piatti Filiberto Chiabrando |
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| description | 3D imaging with Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras is a promising recent technique which allows 3D point clouds to be acquired at video frame rates. However, the distance measurements of these devices are often affected by some systematic errors which decrease the quality of the acquired data. In order to evaluate these errors, some experimental tests on a CCD/CMOS ToF camera sensor, the SwissRanger (SR)-4000 camera, were performed and reported in this paper. In particular, two main aspects are treated: the calibration of the distance measurements of the SR-4000 camera, which deals with evaluation of the camera warm up time period, the distance measurement error evaluation and a study of the influence on distance measurements of the camera orientation with respect to the observed object; the second aspect concerns the photogrammetric calibration of the amplitude images delivered by the camera using a purpose-built multi-resolution field made of high contrast targets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-97576258905f4b6f81035483c1054cdf2022-12-22T02:20:25ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202009-12-01912100801009610.3390/s91210080Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight CameraFulvio RinaudoRoberto ChiabrandoDario PiattiFiliberto Chiabrando3D imaging with Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras is a promising recent technique which allows 3D point clouds to be acquired at video frame rates. However, the distance measurements of these devices are often affected by some systematic errors which decrease the quality of the acquired data. In order to evaluate these errors, some experimental tests on a CCD/CMOS ToF camera sensor, the SwissRanger (SR)-4000 camera, were performed and reported in this paper. In particular, two main aspects are treated: the calibration of the distance measurements of the SR-4000 camera, which deals with evaluation of the camera warm up time period, the distance measurement error evaluation and a study of the influence on distance measurements of the camera orientation with respect to the observed object; the second aspect concerns the photogrammetric calibration of the amplitude images delivered by the camera using a purpose-built multi-resolution field made of high contrast targets.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/12/10080/Time-of-Flight camerarange imagingcalibrationsystematic errorsCCD/CMOS sensor |
| spellingShingle | Fulvio Rinaudo Roberto Chiabrando Dario Piatti Filiberto Chiabrando Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera Sensors Time-of-Flight camera range imaging calibration systematic errors CCD/CMOS sensor |
| title | Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera |
| title_full | Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera |
| title_fullStr | Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera |
| title_short | Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera |
| title_sort | sensors for 3d imaging metric evaluation and calibration of a ccd cmos time of flight camera |
| topic | Time-of-Flight camera range imaging calibration systematic errors CCD/CMOS sensor |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/12/10080/ |
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