Abstract
Thermal imaging is useful for tasks such as detecting the presence of humans and recognizing surrounding objects in the operation of several types of robots, including service robots and personal mobility robots, which assist humans. Because the number of pixels on a thermal imager is generally smaller than that on a color imager, thermal images are more useful when combined with color images, assuming that the correspondence between points in the images captured by the two sensors is known. In the literature, several types of coaxial imaging systems have been reported that can capture thermal and color images, simultaneously, from the same point of view with the same optical axis. Among them, a coaxial imaging system using a concentric silicon–glass hybrid lens was devised. Long-wavelength infrared and visible light was focused using the hybrid lens. The focused light was subsequently split using a silicon plate. Separate thermal and color images were then captured using thermal and color imagers, respectively. However, a coaxiality evaluation of the hybrid lens has not been shown. This report proposes an implementation and coaxiality evaluation for a compact coaxial imaging system incorporating the hybrid lens. The coaxiality of the system was experimentally demonstrated by estimating the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the thermal and color imagers and performing 2D mapping between the thermal images and color images.
Funder
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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14 articles.
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