Engineering Creativity Award: A New Axial Stereo Vision System

本研究项目的主要目标是一个新的立体视觉集成系统，使其在速度和精度方面的整体性能超过现有的能力。研究将涉及：(1)设计和构建一种新的光学系统，能够同时获取许多轴向视差图像帧，用于后续处理；(2)设计和实现一种利用光学块性能的图像分析方法；(3)研究区域匹配（一种新的立体匹配方法）；(4)集成光学块和图像分析系统；(5)从计算机深度信息的准确性、可靠性和处理速度方面评价系统性能。轴向立体视觉系统的优点将被验证，并在各种环境中作为立体视觉的替代系统提出，在这些环境中，它的优点可以被利用。

The main goal of this research project is a novel integrated systems for stereo vision such that its overall performance in speed and accuracy exceeds current capability. The research will involve: (1) design and construction of a new optical system that enables simultaneous acquisition of many axially-parallaxed picture frames for subsequent processing, (2) design and implementation of a method for image analysis that will capitalize on the performance of the optical block, (3) investigation region matching (a new approach to stereo matching), (4) integrating the optical block and image analysis system, and (5) evaluation of the system performance in terms of accuracy and reliability of computer depth information and speed of processing. The merit of the axial-stereo system will be verified and presented as an alternative system for stereo vision in various environments where its advantages can be capitalized upon.