Rainbow three-dimensional camera: new concept of high-speed three-dimensional vision systems

Zheng Jason Geng

doi:10.1117/1.601023

1 February 1996 Rainbow three-dimensional camera: new concept of high-speed three-dimensional vision systems

Zheng Jason Geng

Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 2, (February 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601023

A novel principle of a high-speed 3-D camera is presented. This 3-D camera system is able to achieve the instantaneous full-frame 3-D imaging capabilities that no other commercially available 3-D image acquisition systems or 3-D rangefinders can currently achieve. There are no mechanical moving parts in this system, therefore the mechanical design can be very simple and reliable, and there is no ‘‘eye-safe’’ problem. The 3-D camera can be integrated using all off-the-shelf products, which leads to a very low production cost and short development period. The 3-D camera is also able to provide normal 2-D intensity image of the scene using a single camera, which will greatly facilitate the object recognition and the sensor fusion tasks in machine vision applications. Simulations and hardware experiments have been performed, and the results are presented.

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Zheng Jason Geng "Rainbow three-dimensional camera: new concept of high-speed three-dimensional vision systems," Optical Engineering 35(2), (1 February 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601023

Published: 1 February 1996

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