Calibration of miniature prism-based stereoscopic imagers for precise spatial measurements

Alexander S. Machikhin; Alexey V. Gorevoy

doi:10.1117/12.2229837

21 April 2016 Calibration of miniature prism-based stereoscopic imagers for precise spatial measurements

Alexander S. Machikhin, Alexey V. Gorevoy

Proceedings Volume 9917, Saratov Fall Meeting 2015: Third International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics and Seventh Finnish-Russian Photonics and Laser Symposium (PALS); 991707 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229837
Event: Saratov Fall Meeting 2015, 2015, Saratov, Russian Federation

Abstract

The paper is targeted to find the optimal mathematical model and the calibration algorithm for the industrial endoscope equipped with the prism-based attachable stereo adapter, which allows imaging from two different points by a single sensor. We consider the conventional calibration methods for the pinhole camera model with polynomial distortion approximation and compared them with the ray tracing model based on the vector form of Snell’s law. In order to evaluate each of the proposed models we have developed the software for the imitation of various calibration procedures using different types of calibration targets. We use the computer simulation to prove that the pinhole camera models, widely used in machine vision, are very limited for describing prism-based endoscopic measurement systems. Our analysis identified the main problems for these models, such as entrance pupil shift, non-homocentric beams and required number of coefficients for polynomial models and the iterative forward ray aiming for the ray-tracing model. The proposed technique is flexible and can also be used to test stability and convergence of the parameter estimation procedures and to compare calibration targets and strategies.

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Alexander S. Machikhin and Alexey V. Gorevoy "Calibration of miniature prism-based stereoscopic imagers for precise spatial measurements", Proc. SPIE 9917, Saratov Fall Meeting 2015: Third International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics and Seventh Finnish-Russian Photonics and Laser Symposium (PALS), 991707 (21 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229837

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