Time-of-Flight sensor calibration for accurate range sensing

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1318-1328

  Lindner, Marvin ^a   Schiller, Ingo ^b   Kolb, Andreas ^a   Koch, Reinhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Photonic Mixer Device; Time of Flight

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION DATA; CALIBRATION MODEL; CURRENT RESEARCHES; DISTANCE INFORMATION; ERROR CALIBRATION; ERROR SOURCES; IMAGE-BASED; INPUT DATAS; INTENSITY-BASED; LASER SCANNER; OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONIC MIXER DEVICE; RANGE SENSING; REFERENCE IMAGE; SENSING TECHNIQUES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSORS;

CAMERAS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; STEREO VISION;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 77957995553     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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