A tool-free calibration method for turntable-based 3D scanning systems

• Main Authors: PANG, Xufang, LAU, Rynson W.H., SONG, Zhan, HE, Shengfeng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: 3D-scanning; Automatic method; Automatic registration; Calibration method; Rotation axis; Rotation matrices; Scanning systems; Structured Light; Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8360; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9363/viewcontent/A_tool_free.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Turntable-based 3D scanners are popular but require calibration of the turntable axis. Existing methods for turntable calibration typically make use of specially designed tools, such as a chessboard or criterion sphere, which users must manually install and dismount. In this article, the authors propose an automatic method to calibrate the turntable axis without any calibration tools. Given a scan sequence of the input object, they first recover the initial rotation axis from an automatic registration step. Then they apply an iterative procedure to obtain the optimized turntable axis. This iterative procedure alternates between two steps: refining the initial pose of the input scans and approximating the rotation matrix. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on a structured light-based scanning system.