Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2016
Abstract
Turntable-based 3D scanners are popular but require calibration of the turntable axis. Existing methods for turntable calibration typically make use of specially designed tools, such as a chessboard or criterion sphere, which users must manually install and dismount. In this article, the authors propose an automatic method to calibrate the turntable axis without any calibration tools. Given a scan sequence of the input object, they first recover the initial rotation axis from an automatic registration step. Then they apply an iterative procedure to obtain the optimized turntable axis. This iterative procedure alternates between two steps: refining the initial pose of the input scans and approximating the rotation matrix. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on a structured light-based scanning system.
Keywords
3D-scanning, Automatic method, Automatic registration, Calibration method, Rotation axis, Rotation matrices, Scanning systems, Structured Light
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Volume
36
Issue
1
First Page
52
Last Page
61
ISSN
0272-1716
Identifier
10.1109/MCG.2014.83
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
PANG, Xufang; LAU, Rynson W.H.; SONG, Zhan; HE, Shengfeng; and HE, Shengfeng.
A tool-free calibration method for turntable-based 3D scanning systems. (2016). IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 36, (1), 52-61.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8360
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2014.83
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