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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.03.0132

Passive Ranging Based on Planar Homography in a Monocular Vision System

Wu, Xin-mei (School of Information Engineering, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University)
Guan, Fang-li (State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University)
Xu, Ai-jun (School of Information Engineering, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University)

Publication Information

Journal of Information Processing Systems / v.16, no.1, 2020 , pp. 155-170 More about this Journal

Abstract

Passive ranging is a critical part of machine vision measurement. Most of passive ranging methods based on machine vision use binocular technology which need strict hardware conditions and lack of universality. To measure the distance of an object placed on horizontal plane, we present a passive ranging method based on monocular vision system by smartphone. Experimental results show that given the same abscissas, the ordinatesis of the image points linearly related to their actual imaging angles. According to this principle, we first establish a depth extraction model by assuming a linear function and substituting the actual imaging angles and ordinates of the special conjugate points into the linear function. The vertical distance of the target object to the optical axis is then calculated according to imaging principle of camera, and the passive ranging can be derived by depth and vertical distance to the optical axis of target object. Experimental results show that ranging by this method has a higher accuracy compare with others based on binocular vision system. The mean relative error of the depth measurement is 0.937% when the distance is within 3 m. When it is 3-10 m, the mean relative error is 1.71%. Compared with other methods based on monocular vision system, the method does not need to calibrate before ranging and avoids the error caused by data fitting.

Keywords

Corner Detection; Depth Extraction Model; Monocular Vision; Passive Ranging; Planar Homography;

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