Determining Surface Orientation by Projecting a Stripe Pattern

  • Authors:
  • M. Asada;H. Ichikawa;S. Tsuji

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Toyota Company, Toyota, Japan;Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A method is presented for determining the surface orientations of an object by projecting a stripe pattern on to it. Assuming orthographical projection as a camera model and parallel light projection of the stripe pattern, the method obtains a 2 1/2-D representation of objects by estimating surface normals from the slopes and intervals of the stripes in the image. The 2 1/2-D image is further divided into planar or singly curved surfaces by examining the distribution of the surface normals in gradient space. A simple application to finding a planar surface and determining its orientation and shape is shown. The error in surface orientation is discussed.