Scanning 2D/3D monocular camera

We present the principal aspects and the concept of a monocular combination of a scanning 3D time-of-flight sensor with a large-scale conventional 2D image sensor. While the 2D sensor profits from the whole field of view of an F-Mount photo film format lens, the smaller-sized 3D sensor is mounted onto a highly precise XY linear move stage. Thus, by the means of macro-scanning, the 3D sensor can be moved to interesting parts of the scene so as to provide a second modality e.g. for classification purposes, or, in the same setup, micro-scanning can be applied to enhance the lateral 3D resolution. A test setup was realized to verify the performance.

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