Calibration and development for increased accuracy of 3D range imaging cameras

Abstract

Range imaging has become a valuable technology for many kinds of applications in recent years. Numerous systematic deviations occur during the measurement process carried out by available systems. These systematics are partly excited by external and partly excited by internal influences. In this paper the following investigations will be presented in closer detail. First the statistics of the distance measurement of the analyzed range imaging cameras SwissRangerTM SR-2 and SR-3000 will be shown. Besides the question if the measurements are Gaussian distributed, the precision of the measurements will be shown. This aspect is of importance to answer the question if the mean value of a series of measurements leads to more precise data. Second diverse influencing parameters like the target's reflectivity and external as well as internal temperature are aimed. The dependency of the distance measurements with respect to the amplitude is one of the main aspects in this paper. A specialized set up has been developed in order to derive experimentally the detailed correlation, which is expressed in terms of linearity deviations.