Model-based automatic calculation and evaluation of camera positions for industrial machine vision

Marc M. Ellenrieder; Hitoshi Komoto

doi:10.1117/12.585427

11 March 2005 Model-based automatic calculation and evaluation of camera positions for industrial machine vision

Marc M. Ellenrieder, Hitoshi Komoto

Proceedings Volume 5674, Computational Imaging III; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.585427
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

One of the key issues for a successful inspection process is the determination of the necessary number of cameras and their respective positions given a specific inspection task and a geometric model of the inspected work-piece and its surroundings. In the last decades, a number of approaches concerning camera positioning strategies have been proposed. Generally, these approaches define an inspection task in terms of good visibility of certain features on the surface of the inspected objects. However, these approaches neither provide general means to include arbitrary inspection requirements, nor do they minimize the number of required cameras. Others use only hard constraints to determine the area of feasibility for certain task requirements. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a model-based approach to optimize one or more camera positions by optimizing cost-functions derived from the inspection task. The goal is to use a minimum number of cameras / camera positions to fulfill the inspection task. Feature-visibility is represented using a novel concept: the visibility map. It can be calculated quickly by using a projective approach, consumes little storage memory and allows for quick feature-visibility checks. The system is evaluated on several real-world examples using real inspection tasks from current production processes.

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Marc M. Ellenrieder and Hitoshi Komoto "Model-based automatic calculation and evaluation of camera positions for industrial machine vision", Proc. SPIE 5674, Computational Imaging III, (11 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.585427

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