Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 6, 0615005(2025)

Calibration Method for Stereo Near-Infrared Cameras Based on Scale Smoothing and Outlier Edges Removal

Yuchuan Tao*, Hongce Liu, Rui Ma, Binyuan Liu, and Xueyuan Wang
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  • School of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, Sichuan , China
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    Currently, the manufacturing process of the calibration equipment suitable for near-infrared cameras is complex and expensive. This increases the development cost of the optical surgical navigation system. Simultaneously, owing to the lack of reliable feature point centers extraction method, it is difficult to have an error-free positioning accuracy of the navigation system. To address this, we use LEDs to design a target suitable for near-infrared cameras, inspired by the hardware structure of circular marker array target. A sorting method with unique result is proposed, and the ellipse fitting method is improved. During feature point extraction, we used Otsu thresholding for preprocessing. Subsequently, we applied a Gaussian kernel convolution based on the average radius of the feature points to attenuate the scattering halo of the LEDs and then used Zernike moment to detect the subpixel edges of the feature points and remove some abnormal edges. Furthermore, we performed secondary fitting to obtain more accurate center coordinates of feature points. Finally, we completed the stereo near-infrared camera calibration using Zhang's method. Experimental results show that, after removing some abnormal edges, the reprojection error is reduced by approximately 3% and standard deviation of the stereo reconstruction samples is reduced by approximately 3.3%.

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    Yuchuan Tao, Hongce Liu, Rui Ma, Binyuan Liu, Xueyuan Wang. Calibration Method for Stereo Near-Infrared Cameras Based on Scale Smoothing and Outlier Edges Removal[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(6): 0615005

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    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Jul. 8, 2024

    Accepted: Aug. 28, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 10, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241647

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