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Large-scale three-dimensional measurement based on LED marker tracking

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This paper presents a three-dimensional (3-D) measurement method of large-scale objects by integrating a 3-D scanner and a stereo tracker. To measure a large-scale object, some high-brightness light-emitting diode (LED) lights are rigidly connected to the 3-D scanner. During measurement, the stereo tracker remains stationary, and the 3-D scanner is moved to measure partial sections of a large object. Meanwhile, the LED lights are tracked by the stereo tracker to compute the poses of the 3-D scanner for aligning partial sections. The performance and effectiveness are evaluated by experiments.

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This work is supported by General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation No. 2014M560417; the National Natural Science Foundation of China Nos. 61272219, 61100110, 61321491; the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China No. 2007AA01Z334; the Key Projects Innovation Fund of State Key Laboratory No. ZZKT2013A12; the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China No. NCET-04-04605; the Graduate Training Innovative Projects Foundation of Jiangsu Province No. CXLX13 050; the Science and Technology Program of Jiangsu Province Nos. BE2010072, BE2011058, BY2012190.

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Shi, J., Sun, Z. Large-scale three-dimensional measurement based on LED marker tracking. Vis Comput 32, 179–190 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-015-1063-5

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