Method for extracting Bessel-structured light fringes’ center lines in a triangulation measurement system

Abstract To accurately extract the center lines of the structured light fringes is of the utmost importance for an active vision measurement system based on the laser triangulation method. The characteristic of the ring-structured light fringe pattern in the triangulation measurement system by a Bessel beam has been analyzed. The normal directions of the fringes are determined by solving the directions in which the change of the gray distribution is the greatest. The positions of the light fringes’ center lines can be obtained in normal directions by using the 2D derivative-sign binary map. The experimental results show that the center lines of the ring-structured light fringes can be accurately extracted with the method and the extracted center lines have a good consistency with the original center lines.

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