Title
Exploiting time-multiplexing structured light with picoprojectors
Abstract
When a picture is shot all the information about the distance between the object and the camera gets lost. Depth estimation from a single image is a notable issue in computer vision. In this work we present a hardware and software framework to accomplish the task of 3D measurement through structured light. This technique allows to estimate the depth of the objects, by projecting specific light patterns on the measuring scene. The potentialities of the structured light are well-known in both scientific and industrial contexts. Our framework uses a picoprojector module provided by STMicroelectronics, driven by the designed software projecting timemultiplexing Gray code light patterns. The Gray code is an alternative method to represent binary numbers, ensuring that the hamming distance between two consecutive numbers is always one. Because of this property, this binary coding gives better results for depth estimation task. Many patterns are projected at different time instants, obtaining a dense coding for each pixel. This information is then used to compute the depth for each point in the image. In order to achieve better results, we integrate the depth estimation with the inverted Gray code patterns as well, to compensate projector-camera synchronization problems as well as noise in the scene. Even though our framework is designed for laser picoprojectors, it can be used with conventional image projectors and we present the results for this case too.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2083031
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Structured light,Gray code patterns,Time-multiplexing,Picoprojector
Computer vision,Structured light,Computer science,Binary code,Gray code,Software,Hamming distance,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Multiplexing,Software framework
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9393
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
mario giuffrida110.69
Giovanni Maria Farinella241257.13
Sebastiano Battiato365978.73
Mirko Guarnera4536.59