Vergence control system for stereo depth recovery

Luis Miguel Jimenez; Oscar Reinoso; Rafael Aracil; Fernando Torres-Medina; Jose M. Sebastian y Zuniga

doi:10.1117/12.341142

8 March 1999 Vergence control system for stereo depth recovery

Luis Miguel Jimenez, Oscar Reinoso, Rafael Aracil, Fernando Torres-Medina, Jose M. Sebastian y Zuniga

Proceedings Volume 3652, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection VII; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.341142
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a vergence control algorithm for a 3D stereo recovery system. This work has been developed within framework of the project ROBTET. This project has the purpose of designing a Teleoperated Robotic System for live power lines maintenance. The tasks involved suppose the automatic calculation of path for standard tasks, collision detection to avoid electrical shocks, force feedback and accurate visual data, and the generation of collision free real paths. To accomplish these tasks the system needs an exact model of the environment that is acquired through an active stereoscopic head. A cooperative algorithm using vergence and stereo correlation is shown. The proposed system is carried out through an algorithm based on the phase correlation, trying to keep the vergence on the interest object. The sharp vergence changes produced by the variation of the interest objects are controlled through an estimation of the depth distance generated by a stereo correspondence system. In some elements of the scene, those aligned with the epipolar plane, large errors in the depth estimation as well as in the phase correlation, are produced. To minimize these errors a laser lighting system is used to help fixation, assuring an adequate vergence and depth extraction.

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Luis Miguel Jimenez, Oscar Reinoso, Rafael Aracil, Fernando Torres-Medina, and Jose M. Sebastian y Zuniga "Vergence control system for stereo depth recovery", Proc. SPIE 3652, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection VII, (8 March 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.341142

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