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These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how the economic feasibility of 3D scanners is becoming better through improvements in lasers, camera ICs, and processor ICs. 3D scanning is both a complement to 3D printing and a technology with its own unique applications. 3D printing of complex objects can be done from a CAD database or from a 3D scan where a 3D scan can be done with laser or other sources of white light such as LEDs.
3D scanning can also be done for other purposes. For example, scientists and engineers are using 3D scanners to survey archeological, construction, crime scene, and engineering sites, to document maintenance and repair of engineered systems, and to customize medical and dental products for humans. Improvements in lasers, LEDs, camera chips, ICs, and other components continue to improve the economic feasibility of 3D scanning. Longer wavelength lasers increase the scanning range, better camera chips improve the scanning resolution, and better lasers, camera chips, and processor ICs reduce the scanning time. For example, third generation scanners from Argon, one leading supplier, have 100 times higher resolution and one tenth the scan times of Argonโs first generation system.
For costs, lasers make up the largest percentage followed by camera and processor ICs. For example, lasers make up 80% of the hardware cost for one high-end system with a current cost of $1346 and a price of about $3000. As laser costs fall and as volumes enable smaller margins, the price of such systems will fall.
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techniques from multi-view geometry, a 3D model of the face was constructed and refined. An explicit analysis of the stereo
disparity calculation methods and filter elimination disparity estimation for increasing reliability of the disparity map was
used. Minimizing variability in position by using more precise positioning techniques and resources will increase the accuracy of this technique and is a focus for future work
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sensors or artificial landmarks, has the ability to locate itself in an unknown environment and then build a
map of the corresponding environment. Stereo vision,while still being a rapidly developing technique in the
field of autonomous mobile robots, are currently less preferable due to its high implementation cost. This
paper aims at describing an experimental approach for the building of a stereo vision system that helps the
robots to avoid obstacles and navigate through indoor environments and at the same time remaining very
much cost effective. This paper discusses the fusion techniques of stereo vision and ultrasound sensors
which helps in the successful navigation through different types of complex environments. The data from
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Detecting pedestrians in low resolution videos is a challenging task, due to the small size of pedestrians in the images and the limited information. In practical outdoor surveillance scenarios the pedestrian size is usually small. Existing state-of-the-art pedestrian detection methods that use histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features have poor performance in this problem domain. To compensate for the lack of information in a single frame, we propose a novel detection method that recognizes pedestrians in a short sequence of frames. Namely, we take the single-frame HOG-based detector and extend it to multiple frames. Our detector is applied to regions containing potential moving objects. In the case of video taken from a moving camera on an aerial platform, video stabilization is first performed to register the frames. A classifier is then applied to features extracted from spatio-temporal volumes surrounding the potential moving objects. On challenging stationary and aerial video datasets, our detection accuracy outperforms several state-of-the-art algorithms.
Digital 3D imaging can benefit from advances in VLSI technology in order to accelerate its deployment in many fields like visual communication and industrial automation. High-resolution 3D images can be acquired using laser-based vision systems. With this approach, the 3D information becomes relatively insensitive to background illumination and surface texture. Complete images of visible surfaces that are rather featureless to the human eye or a video camera can be generated. Intelligent digitizers will be capable of measuring accurately and simultaneously color and 3D.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how Light Field Technology is becoming economic feasible for an increasing number of applications. Light Field Cameras record all of the light fields in a picture instead of just one light field. This capability enables users to change the focus of pictures after they have been taken and to more easily record 3D data. These features are becoming economically feasible improvements because of rapid improvements in camera chips and micro-lens arrays (an example of micro-electronic mechanical systems, MEMS). These features offer alternative ways to do 3D sensing for automated vehicles and augmented reality and can enable faster data collection with telescopes.
Precision measurement technology and application based on machine visionIJRES Journal
ย
Presently, the precision measurement technology based on machine vision has applied to all kinds of fields such as electron, motorcar, weave, glass and metalworking. It can also work effectively in many occasions that many old methods are difficult to check and measure. The levels of production automation and intelligent detection system have been improved greatly. In this paper, the basic principle and application of the machine vision system is introduced firstly, and then the application of small modulus gear precision measurement technology based on machine vision is taken as an example to show the feasibility of this method in precision measurement. The results revealed the advantages of machine vision method that the measurement efficiency is improved and the artificial error is reduced.
An algorithm to quantify the swelling by reconstructing 3D model of the face with stereo images is presented. We
analyzed the primary problems in computational stereo, which include correspondence and depth calculation. Work has been carried out to determine suitable methods for depth estimation and standardizing volume estimations. Finally we designed software for reconstructing 3D images from 2D stereo images, which was built on Matlab and Visual C++. Utilizing
techniques from multi-view geometry, a 3D model of the face was constructed and refined. An explicit analysis of the stereo
disparity calculation methods and filter elimination disparity estimation for increasing reliability of the disparity map was
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In this work we demonstrate a highly flexible laser imaging system for 3D sensing applications such as in tracking of VR/AR headsets, hands and gestures. The system uses a MEMS mirror scan module to transmit low power laser pulses over programmable areas within a field of view and uses a single photodiode to measure the reflected light...
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The work is concentrated on an experimental approach to determine surface waviness of metal and height of liquid surface wave. It is based on illuminated those surfaces with a highly coherent light such as laser, and observed movement of center of speckle pattern which were gained from the movement surfaces by using tracking program. The movements of the speckle pattern work on carries important information about those surfaces. Two triangulation methods employed to evaluate metal waviness and liquid surface wave. The first method apply on a solid material (metal) and taking a video directly from the reflected surface, the second method apply on the liquid material (oil ) and taking a video after reflected from screen. The methods used here have a great potential for precise and non-contact optical measurements for surface wave measurements.
Intelligent indoor mobile robot navigation using stereo visionsipij
ย
Majority of the existing robot navigation systems, which facilitate the use of laser range finders, sonar
sensors or artificial landmarks, has the ability to locate itself in an unknown environment and then build a
map of the corresponding environment. Stereo vision,while still being a rapidly developing technique in the
field of autonomous mobile robots, are currently less preferable due to its high implementation cost. This
paper aims at describing an experimental approach for the building of a stereo vision system that helps the
robots to avoid obstacles and navigate through indoor environments and at the same time remaining very
much cost effective. This paper discusses the fusion techniques of stereo vision and ultrasound sensors
which helps in the successful navigation through different types of complex environments. The data from
the sensor enables the robot to create the two dimensional topological map of unknown environments and
stereo vision systems models the three dimension model of the same environment.
PEDESTRIAN DETECTION IN LOW RESOLUTION VIDEOS USING A MULTI-FRAME HOG-BASED D...AM Publications
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Detecting pedestrians in low resolution videos is a challenging task, due to the small size of pedestrians in the images and the limited information. In practical outdoor surveillance scenarios the pedestrian size is usually small. Existing state-of-the-art pedestrian detection methods that use histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features have poor performance in this problem domain. To compensate for the lack of information in a single frame, we propose a novel detection method that recognizes pedestrians in a short sequence of frames. Namely, we take the single-frame HOG-based detector and extend it to multiple frames. Our detector is applied to regions containing potential moving objects. In the case of video taken from a moving camera on an aerial platform, video stabilization is first performed to register the frames. A classifier is then applied to features extracted from spatio-temporal volumes surrounding the potential moving objects. On challenging stationary and aerial video datasets, our detection accuracy outperforms several state-of-the-art algorithms.
Digital 3D imaging can benefit from advances in VLSI technology in order to accelerate its deployment in many fields like visual communication and industrial automation. High-resolution 3D images can be acquired using laser-based vision systems. With this approach, the 3D information becomes relatively insensitive to background illumination and surface texture. Complete images of visible surfaces that are rather featureless to the human eye or a video camera can be generated. Intelligent digitizers will be capable of measuring accurately and simultaneously color and 3D.
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3D MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS
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ABSTRACT
Machine vision refers to applications in which the PC automatically makes a decision based on
visual input from a camera. Machine vision is a term typically used in industrial manufacturing, where
applications range from culling blemished oranges from a conveyor belt to saving lives by inspecting to
ensure that the correct drug capsule has been placed in the package before the product is shipped to the
pharmacy. Three dimensional vision based measurement systems have made their presence into production
metrology applications, notably in the electronics field. However, in the more traditional fields of durable
goods now dominated by hard gauges and CMMs, 3D optical systems has been hindered by perceptions
and real limitations. This paper will review where 3D vision is today, and what advances have been made
to enable more quantitative, shop floor metrology applications. The field of 3D machine vision is a less
established field, but one that is actively growing today. Three dimensional vision based measurements
have come a long way in the past few years, moving from purely visualization tools that generate attractive
color pictures, to serious measurement tools. These 3D systems include laser scanning, structured light,
stereo viewing, and laser radar just to name a few.
INTRODUCTION
Modern day durable goods manufacturing have begun to embrace the concepts of digitization as a
means to improve productivity and quality. Moving away from expensive hard gages made for specific
parts; manufacturers are seeking the means to measure parts in a flexible manner, and capture the resulting
measurements by digital means. For higher volume parts, such as from forging or fast machining
operations, speed of gauging is still an issue.
This is the area where machine vision based tools start to excel. Machine vision in general has
been used for everything from guiding the insertion of electronic chips on circuit boards to inspecting
bottles at several per second in bottling lines. A natural extension of machine vision inspection is to provide
programmable measurements for machined parts. In many applications, these measurements can be made
in two dimensions for which there is an established based of machine vision tools working in the sub-
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thousandth of an inch range at multiple measurements per second. Each of these methods has their strong
points and weak points for a given application.
The key performance parameters needed for durable good manufacturing include:
โข Resolution in the mil, and sub-mil range
โข Speeds sufficient to complete all measurements in a few seconds
โข Ability to look at a wide range of surface types and finishes
This last point, the ability to look at a wide range of surface finishes has perhaps been the biggest limitation
of 3D machine vision technology. In many cases, the surface needs to be diffuse to permit reflected light to
be easily seen to achieve a good signal to noise ratio.
Three dimensional optical sensors can perhaps be broken into a few basic types:-
๏ Point scanning sensors measure only the specific points of interest, typically in a serial fashion,
๏ Line sensors provide a single line of points in the form of a cross section of the contour of interest,
๏ Full-field sensors provide an X, Y, Z map of all the points in the scene, which must then be
analyzed down to the information of interest.
Each of these types of sensors has developed through technology which is suited to the application. In some
cases, the technology is capable of multiple modes of operation (finding point on a surface, or defining the
full surface) as well, but this often stretches the technology into a field overlapping other technologies.
There has not to date been any single sensor in industrial applications which does everything.
DISCUSSION OF TECHNOLOGIES
There are currently three basic approaches to three-dimensional machine vision:
๏ท range finding including structured lighting
๏ท stereo or binocular vision,
๏ท gray scale or range finding methods.
TRIANGULATION
The most popular commercial versions of range finding use the triangulation method where a
beam of light is projected onto the object's surface at some angle and the image of this spot or line of light
is viewed at some other angle (see Figure 1). As the object distance changes a spot of light on the surface
will move along the surface by:
(change in spot position) = (change in distance) x (tan(incident angle) + tan(viewing angle))
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Figure 1. A triangulation based system using a point of light to obtain distance.
Good resolution of a few tens of microns have been realized with these systems. Most
triangulation gages today use laser light. When a laser beam is incident on an opaque, rough surface, the
micro-structure of the surface can act as though it is made of a range of small mirrors, pointing in numerous
directions. These micro-mirrors may reflect the light off in a particular direction, as generally machine
marks do, or may direct the light along the surface of the part. Depending on how random or directional
the pointing of these micro-mirrors may be, the apparent spot seen on the surface will not be a direct
representation of the light beam as incident on the part surface. The effects that may be seen from a laser
beam reflecting off a rough surface include:
๏ท directional reflection due to surface ridges
๏ท skewing of the apparent light distribution due to highlights
๏ท expansion of the incident laser spot due to micro surface piping
The result of this type of laser reflection or "speckle" is a noisy signal from some surfaces. In like manner,
there can be a problem with translucent surfaces, as the laser light will scatter through the medium and
produce a false return signal. For a laser based sensor, a smooth, non-mirror like, opaque surface produces
the best results. An active variation of restricting the view uses synchronized scanning. In the synchronized
scanning approach (see figure 2), both the laser beam and viewing point is scanned across the field. In this
manner, the detector only looks at where the laser is going.
Figure 2. A synchronized scanning system, limited the range of view.
A more extreme variation of the synchronized scanning type of approach is to use an active point
seeking triangulation system (see figure 3). With an active point seeking triangulation system, a single
point detector is limited to a very narrow view, at a constant angle, which is then translated across the path
of the laser beam.
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Figure 3. Active triangulation system, seeking laser point, providing extended range.
The detector now has the advantage that it can resolve the distribution of light seen along that
particular angle, and potentially decide on which signals are the correct ones. Reflections that do not go
along the view axis are not seen at all. The limitations of this approach can be more time consumed in
seeking each point, and low light collection to maintain high angle separate. If as opposed to a single spot
of light, a line is projected onto the surface by imaging or by scanning a beam, as shown in Figure 1, the
line will deform as it moves across a contoured surface as each point of the line move as described above.
The effect is to provide an image of a single profile of the part (see figure 4). In applications requiring only
a profile measurement, these techniques offer good speed of measurement.
Figure 4. Laser radar sensor scanning a box from a single view point
The individual laser probes have seen a near 10 fold improvement in resolution in the past few
years. The application of such probes in the electronics industry has been a great benefit to making high
speed electronics assembly possible. Scanning and fixed triangulation systems have been used to contour
large structures such as airplanes, logs or airfoil shapes, and metal rolling mill flatness control. The large
area systems primarily have used one or multiple lines of light to obtain a cross sectional profile at a time.
In many cases, these line sensors are connected with a CMM type device to extend the working range of
the sensor. The resolutions of such systems need typically be less than a millimeter, and more typically is
around 2.5 microns (0.0001 inch). Full-field structured light systems, based upon projected grids by direct
sensing of the grid or related to moire are also commercially available. The primary application of this type
of sensor has been the contouring of continuously curved non-prismatic parts such as turbine airfoils, sheet
metal, clay models, and human anatomy. Special compact sensors for use on CMMs are also available with
this technology. Most of the applications of this technology has been on applications requiring dense data,
but have also been engineered to enhance video data for the purpose of 3D "comparator" type
measurements on objects ranging from rolled sheet metal (for flatness) to car bodies.
The techniques described so far are based on some form of active illumination of the surface, and
active sensing of that specific illumination. When people view an object, they receive 3-D information
based upon the principles of parallax and shadings seen on the surface.
Stereo or binocular machine vision methods work on the same principle as human vision by
obtaining parallax information by viewing the object from two different perspectives as is shown in Figure
5. (as our two eyes do).
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Figure 5. Two cameras see different perspectives to provide stereo parallax information.
The two views must be matched up and then the difference in the position of a correlated feature
gives the depth information from the geometry of the two view points(similar to the triangulation methods).
These methods can be full-field, thereby keeping the data acquisition time to a minimum, and they do
provide all the 2-D feature information. In fact, stereo depends on the surface features to the extent that a
featureless, smooth surface (such as the turbine blade), can not be contoured directly with stereo views.
Many machine vision systems have a simple stereo matching capability, made for tracking
individual points in space, but not for providing full surface contours as would be desired for reverse
engineering applications. Resolutions of a few millimeters at certain points, and processing times of a few
seconds has been typical for the current industrial applications. There have been dedicated hardware
systems made, but stereo has not be able to provide the flexibility of scanning type systems for CAD data
generation applications.
APPLICATION TESTING
As has already been stated, the key operational parameters needed for production machine vision include
speed, resolution, and robustness especially to changing part surface conditions. Many systems that provide
the best resolution are not the fastest, so a tradeoff must be made. Just as with touch probes, there are
certain types of features or surfaces that optical 3D methods can be expected to work good on, and others
where there may be problems. If has been pointed out that shiny, but not specular surfaces have offered one
of the biggest challenges. In like manner, when a surface changes from a shiny area to a dull, many sensors
may generate a bias error. In the simple case of triangulation, the measurement is based upon finding the
centroid of a light spot of some finite size. If half that spot is on an area that reflects back to the sensor well,
and the other half is not, the center of brightness of the spot will not be the geometric center, but rather
weighted toward the brighter region. Testing the sensor on edge and surface transition features is a valuable
first test to consider (such as in Figure 6).
Figure 6. Measuring the effect across an edge boundary.
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The next area of concern is the surface texture itself. A surface with machining marks has a texture which
may scatter light into long lines that may confuse the sensor. In a similar manner, if the surface is
translucent, the spot of light may spread out in an unpredictable manner, again offsetting the spot center,
and hence the measurement made. Therefore, testing the sensor on a surface texture that matches the one to
be measured is important. A final important feature consideration for many optical gages is the slope of the
surface. A standard way to test such effects is to scan a diffuse sphere and fit the data to the known
diameter (see Figure 7).At some angle around the sphere, the surface can be expected to lift off the true
surface, before the signal is lost entirely. As with any gage, comparison of the optical gage against other
measurement tools provides valuable information regarding confidence of the measurements. This is not
always an easy comparison, as the repeatability of many traditional gages may not be as good as the optical
gage.
Figure 7.Measurement on a sphere
Anytime one is trying to improve a process, one encounters the challenge of demonstrating a capability
against a tool with less capability. The very high speeds and data densities available from optical gages
offer some significant advances. Yet trying to compare those advantages against a gage which stakes
everything on a half dozen points is a difficult road. However, the comparisons and qualification of the new
process must be done. Comparisons against inadequate measurement tools can prove very frustrating, so at
least one independent means of comparison is desirable. The use of reference artifacts that can be verified
by independent means, preferable with primary standard reference (e.g., the laser distance interferometer is
the international standard of length measurement), is a valuable aid in these comparison.
APPLICATIONS
Machine vision systems can be used in various fields for numerous purposes as stated below:
Industrial inspection (Inspecting machine parts, Adaptive inspection systems)
Vision for Autonomous Vehicles (Detecting obstructions, Exploring new surroundings, AV
surveillance)
Transport (Traffic monitoring, Aerial navigation, Transport Safety)
Surveillance(Intruder monitoring, Number plate identification, Tracking people)
Vision and Remote Sensing (Land Management, Crop classification, Surveying by satellite)
Medical (Planning radiation therapy, Chromosome analysis, Merging medical images)
CONCLUSION
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As with any technology of this nature, the performance changes with the component technology.
The primary advance that has made machine vision systems feasible for shop floor gauging applications
has been the speed up in computing power. This has brought the processing times from 15 or 20 minutes on
an expensive workstation to seconds on a standard PC. The other technologies that are influencing
performance today include lower cost, digital cameras than provide better light range and pixel resolution
with lower noise, and better light sources such as higher power laser diodes well as higher brightness and
resolution LCD projectors. The consumer market largely influences all of these technologies, which is
currently a much bigger driver than any manufacturing support system. However, as system prices decrease
and performance improves, there is a wide range of new markets these systems will likely address ranging
from dentistry to home 3D pictures.
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