Accuracy Improvement by Phase Only Correlation for Distance Estimation Scheme for Visible Light Communications Using an LED Array and a High-Speed Camera

This paper focuses on a distance estimation scheme using a camera. The authors distance estimation scheme is based on triangulation. The accuracy of camera based scheme is governed by resolution of a camera, or equivalently the size of pixel. Therefore the authors introduce phase only correlation (POC) to estimate with subpixel accuracy. As a result of the experiment, the authors will show that the scheme achieves less than 0.3m estimation error at the distance of 60m. By using POC, the resolution of estimation reaches nearly 0.02 pixel, much less than one pixel.