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7 Citations
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16 September 2023

In this paper, we propose a grain volume measurement method based on binocular structured light to address the need for fast and high-precision grain volume measurement in grain stocks. Firstly, we utilize speckle structured light imaging to tackle t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,584 Views
18 Pages

Line-structured light three-dimensional (3D) measurement is apt for measuring the 3D profile of objects in complex industrial environments. The light-plane calibration, which is a crucial link, greatly affects the accuracy of measurement results. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,926 Views
17 Pages

Line-Structured Light-Based Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Measurement System with an Improved Scanning-Direction Calibration Method

  • Jia Chen,
  • Shantao Ping,
  • Xiaowei Liang,
  • Xulong Ma and ,
  • Shiyan Pang and
  • Ying He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 June 2025

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction measurement technology utilizing line-structured light offers non-contact operation, making it widely applicable in industrial production. An effective scanning-direction calibration method in a line-structured l...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,664 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2021

Line-structured light has been widely used in the field of railway measurement, owing to its high capability of anti-interference, fast scanning speed and high accuracy. Traditional calibration methods of line-structured light sensors have the disadv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Optical Sensors Technology in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
759 Views
14 Pages

Transient 3D Shape Measurement Method Based on Pulsed-Laser-Illuminated Stroboscopic Structured Light

  • Tianyi Guo,
  • Yiwei Cheng,
  • Xuan Hu,
  • Zhengdong Chen and ,
  • Qican Zhang,
  • Zhoujie Wu and
  • Jie Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Rotor blades in aero-engines operating in sand-laden environments are highly susceptible to particle-induced erosion. Conventional sand ingestion experiments primarily rely on post-test disassembly, which lacks the capability for real-time surface sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Measurement Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,989 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2021

In this paper, a topology-based stereo matching method for 3D measurement using a single pattern of coded spot-array structured light is proposed. The pattern of spot array is designed with a central reference ring spot, and each spot in the pattern...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,972 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2025

As a special component, inner-wall-shaped parts with a narrow aperture and large cavity play an important role in the field of industrial manufacturing. It is of great significance to accurately measure the full profile of the inner surface of such p...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,529 Views
16 Pages

A Polarized Structured Light Method for the 3D Measurement of High-Reflective Surfaces

  • Jixin Liang,
  • Yuping Ye,
  • Feifei Gu,
  • Jiankai Zhang and ,
  • Juan Zhao and
  • Zhan Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The reflection phenomenon exhibited by highly reflective surfaces considerably affects the quality of captured images, thereby rendering the task of structured light (SL) 3D reconstruction. In this paper, a polarized SL method is proposed to address...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Imaging and Measurements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,877 Views
17 Pages

Joint Calibration Method for Robot Measurement Systems

  • Lei Wu,
  • Xizhe Zang,
  • Guanwen Ding,
  • Chao Wang and ,
  • Xuehe Zhang,
  • Yubin Liu and
  • Jie Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 August 2023

Robot measurement systems with a binocular planar structured light camera (3D camera) installed on a robot end-effector are often used to measure workpieces’ shapes and positions. However, the measurement accuracy is jointly influenced by the r...

(This article belongs to the Collection Robotics, Sensors and Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,604 Views
23 Pages

20 December 2017

The three-dimensional measurement system with a binary defocusing technique is widely applied in diverse fields. The measurement accuracy is mainly determined by out-of-focus projector calibration accuracy. In this paper, a high-precision out-of-focu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,582 Views
14 Pages

7 January 2022

Single circular targets are widely used as calibration objects during line-structured light three-dimensional (3D) measurements because they are versatile and easy to manufacture. This paper proposes a new calibration method for line-structured light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,659 Views
13 Pages

25 September 2019

Wheel diameter is a significant geometric parameter related to the safe operation of trains, and needs to be measured dynamically. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, most existing dynamic measurement methods and systems do not meet the requ...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,243 Views
19 Pages

A Mechanical Error Correction Algorithm for Laser Human Body Scanning System

  • Yue Wang,
  • Jun Ren,
  • Yuan Xue,
  • Kaixuan Liu and ,
  • Fei Ma and
  • Maoya Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 January 2026

Human body measurement involves large-scale measurement. The acquisition of three-dimensional spatial coordinate data is a complex process. The errors which are generated in each stage of the process can potentially affect the final measurement data....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Revolutionizing Smart Manufacturing: Cutting-Edge Technologies in the Industry's Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,500 Views
18 Pages

Shaft Diameter Measurement Using Structured Light Vision

  • Siyuan Liu,
  • Qingchang Tan and
  • Yachao Zhang

12 August 2015

A method for measuring shaft diameters is presented using structured light vision measurement. After calibrating a model of the structured light measurement, a virtual plane is established perpendicular to the measured shaft axis and the image of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,972 Views
13 Pages

A method for the measurement of the shape of a fine structure beyond the diffraction limit based on speckle interferometry has been reported. In this paper, the mechanism for measuring the shape of the fine structure in speckle interferometry using s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Metrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,843 Views
15 Pages

Depth Measurement Error Analysis and Structural Parameter Correction of Structured Light Depth Imager

  • Shuang Yu,
  • Haoran Guo,
  • Wenlong Yang,
  • Yanqiao Zhao and ,
  • Haibin Wu,
  • Xiaoming Sun and
  • Xiaoyang Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Considering that structured light depth imagers are difficult to use for precision measurements due to their limited measurement accuracy, we propose an innovative method for correcting structural parameters of structured light depth imagers to reduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Devices/Components/Coatings for Ultra-Precision Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,633 Views
12 Pages

A Cross-Line Structured Light Scanning System Based on a Measuring Arm

  • Dayong Tai,
  • Zhixiong Wu,
  • Ying Yang and
  • Cunwei Lu

The measurement system proposed in this paper, using a measuring arm and line structured light, has a wide range of applications. To improve the scanning efficiency, the system outlined in this paper uses two single-line structured lights to form cro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photonic Devices Instrumentation and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,245 Views
19 Pages

A Framework in Calibration Process for Line Structured Light System Using Image Analysis

  • Tianhong Luo,
  • Suchwen Liu,
  • Chenglin Wang,
  • Qiang Fu and
  • Xunjia Zheng

24 May 2021

Line structured light systems have been widely applied in the measurement of various fields. Calibration has been a hot research topic as a vitally important process of the line structured light system. The accurate calibration directly affects the m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Digital Design and Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,156 Views
18 Pages

Binocular Stereo Vision-Based Structured Light Scanning System Calibration and Workpiece Surface Measurement Accuracy Analysis

  • Xinbo Zhang,
  • Li Luo,
  • Rui Ma,
  • Yuexue Wang and ,
  • Shi Xie,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Yiqing Zou,
  • Xiaohao Wang and
  • Xinghui Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 October 2025

Precise online measurement of large structural components is urgently needed in modern manufacturing and intelligent construction, requiring a measurement range over 1 m, near-millimeter accuracy, second-level measurement speed, and adaptability to c...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,373 Views
13 Pages

Structured Light Three-Dimensional Measurement Based on Machine Learning

  • Chuqian Zhong,
  • Zhan Gao,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Shuangyun Shao and
  • Chenjia Gao

23 July 2019

The three-dimensional measurement of structured light is commonly used and has widespread applications in many industries. In this study, machine learning is used for structured light 3D measurement to recover the phase distribution of the measured o...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,224 Views
17 Pages

A Three-Dimensional Structured Light Vision System by Using a Combination of Single-Line and Three-Line Lasers

  • Qiucheng Sun,
  • Zeming Ren,
  • Jinlong Zhu,
  • Weiyu Dai and ,
  • Mingze Wang and
  • Mingyu Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 December 2022

A multi-line structured light measurement method that combines a single-line and a three-line laser, in which precision sliding rails and displacement measurement equipment are not required, is proposed in this paper. During the measurement, the sing...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,439 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2020

The effect of temperature on three-dimensional (3D) structured light scanners is a very complex issue that, under some conditions, can lead to significant deterioration of performed measurements. In this paper, we present the results of several studi...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,125 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2023

Line-structured light calibration is an important step in the process of the visual measurement of structured light, and in the calibration process, the light plane equation is fitted by the camera coordinates of the data points on the light plane. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,683 Views
22 Pages

A Non-Contact Measurement of Animal Body Size Based on Structured Light

  • Fangzhou Xu,
  • Yuxuan Zhang,
  • Zelin Zhang and
  • Nan Geng

20 January 2024

To improve the accuracy of non-contact measurements of animal body size and reduce costs, a new monocular camera scanning equipment based on structured light was built with a matched point cloud generation algorithm. Firstly, using the structured lig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,613 Views
22 Pages

Measurement Technologies of Light Field Camera: An Overview

  • Xiaoming Hu,
  • Zhuotong Li,
  • Li Miao,
  • Fengzhou Fang and ,
  • Zhongjie Jiang and
  • Xiaodong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 July 2023

Visual measurement methods are extensively used in various fields, such as aerospace, biomedicine, agricultural production, and social life, owing to their advantages of high speed, high accuracy, and non-contact. However, traditional camera-based me...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,447 Views
25 Pages

23 December 2024

This study presents a novel transmission-based method for characterizing local structural features, including the grammage, thickness, and fiber orientation, of paper materials. Some non-destructive techniques, such as micro-computed tomography (μ...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,575 Views
9 Pages

Structured light beams have played important roles in the fields of optical imaging and optical manipulation. However, light fields scatter when they encounter highly anisotropic scattering media, such as biological tissue, which destroys their origi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Applications of Biophotonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,137 Views
11 Pages

Method and Device Based on Multiscan for Measuring the Geometric Parameters of Objects

  • Michael Yurievich Alies,
  • Yuriy Konstantinovich Shelkovnikov,
  • Milan Sága,
  • Milan Vaško and ,
  • Ivan Kuric,
  • Evgeny Yurievich Shelkovnikov,
  • Aleksandr Ivanovich Korshunov and
  • Anastasia Alekseevna Meteleva
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 December 2020

The article deals with the issues of improving the accuracy of measurements of the geometric parameters of objects by optoelectronic systems, based on a television multiscan. A mathematical model of a multiscan with scanistor activation is developed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,279 Views
13 Pages

High-Precision Calibration of a Monocular-Vision-Guided Handheld Line-Structured-Light Measurement System

  • Jingbo Zhou,
  • Zhaohui Ji,
  • Yuehua Li,
  • Xiaohong Liu and ,
  • Wenhao Yao and
  • Yafang Qin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 July 2023

Due to the advantages of simple construction, easy application and good environmental suitability, handheld structured-light measurement systems have broad application prospects in 3D measurements. Here, a monocular-vision-guided line-structured-ligh...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,977 Views
13 Pages

The measurement precision of a line-structured light measurement system is directly affected by the accuracy of extracting the center points of the laser stripes. When the measured object’s surface has significant undulations and severe reflect...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,439 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2021

Terahertz waves are located in the frequency band between radio waves and light, and they are being considered for various applications as a light source. Generally, the use of light requires focusing; however, when a terahertz wave is irradiated ont...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Metamaterials or Plasmonics-Based Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,528 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2016

A robot-based three-dimensional (3D) measurement system is presented. In the presented system, a structured light vision sensor is mounted on the arm of an industrial robot. Measurement accuracy is one of the most important aspects of any 3D measurem...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,106 Views
13 Pages

5 February 2025

Infrared deflectometry is an efficient and accurate measuring method for curved surfaces fabricated via grinding or finish milling. The emitting properties and geometrical configurations of the infrared light source is a core component governing the...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,447 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2021

Nowadays, the application of composite materials and light-weight structures is required in those industrial applications where the primary design aims are weight saving, high stiffness, corrosion resistance and vibration damping. The first goal of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer Composites for Structural Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
7,136 Views
13 Pages

Structured-Light Based 3D Reconstruction System for Cultural Relic Packaging

  • Limei Song,
  • Xinyao Li,
  • Yan-gang Yang,
  • Xinjun Zhu and ,
  • Qinghua Guo and
  • Hui Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 September 2018

The non-contact three-dimensional measurement and reconstruction techniques have played a significant role in the packaging and transportation of precious cultural relics. This paper develops a structured light based three-dimensional measurement sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,895 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2025

To address the challenge of measuring the plate wall offset at the U-shaped groove positions after assembling large cylindrical shell arc segments, this paper proposes a measurement method based on multi-line-structured light vision sensors. The sens...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,892 Views
17 Pages

4 November 2020

The use of UV (ultraviolet fluorescence) light in microscopy allows improving the quality of images and observation of structures that are not visible in visible spectrum. The disadvantage of this method is the degradation of microstructures in the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Medical Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,950 Views
17 Pages

Use of Spatio-Structural Parameters of the Multiscan Video Signal for Improving Accuracy of Control over Object Geometric Parameters

  • Vladimír Tlach,
  • Michael Yurievich Alies,
  • Ivan Kuric,
  • Milan Sága and ,
  • Yuriy Konstantinovich Shelkovnikov,
  • Igor Olegovic Arkhipov,
  • Aleksandr Ivanovich Korshunov and
  • Anastasia Alekseevna Meteleva
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 February 2023

In the present paper, we consider the issue of improving the accuracy of measurements and the peculiar features of the measurements of the geometric parameters of objects by optoelectronic systems, based on a television multiscan in the analogue mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation and Robotics: Latest Achievements, Challenges and Prospects, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,854 Views
15 Pages

Non-Contact Global Measurement of the Engine in Working Condition

  • Guoce Hu,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Huaxia Deng,
  • Mengchao Ma and
  • Xiang Zhong

Vibration measurements are essential for studying the dynamic properties of structures, as they can better capture the global characteristics of the structure. This paper proposes a three-dimensional measurement method based on projected structured l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photodetector Materials and Optoelectronic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,115 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2016

While color-coding methods have improved the measuring efficiency of a structured light three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, they decreased the measuring accuracy significantly due to lateral chromatic aberration (LCA). In this study, the LCA i...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
22 Pages

Conductor on Round Core (CORC) high-temperature superconducting cables are critical for next-generation magnetic confinement fusion devices, yet their performance is highly sensitive to geometric variations, necessitating high-precision non-contact i...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,961 Views
10 Pages

A Photometric Stereo Using Re-Projected Images for Active Stereo Vision System

  • Keonhwa Jung,
  • Seokjung Kim,
  • Sungbin Im,
  • Taehwan Choi and
  • Minho Chang

13 October 2017

In optical 3D shape measurement, stereo vision with structured light can measure 3D scan data with high accuracy and is used in many applications, but fine surface detail is difficult to obtain. On the other hand, photometric stereo can capture surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,102 Views
20 Pages

UAV-Based Airport Lights Inspection Without GNSS Positioning Support

  • Wiesław Pamuła,
  • Teresa Pamuła,
  • Tomasz Stenzel,
  • Maciej Sajkowski and ,
  • Adam Rytter and
  • Daria Żuchowska
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 March 2025

The inspection of PAPI (precision approach path indicator), ALS (approach light system), and runway lights is the basis of maintenance actions that safeguard the safety of airport operations. These actions consist of measurements requiring the accura...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Space Geodesy Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,196 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2019

The surface of a complex material with a periodic structure is equivalent to the surface of a uniform material, and the measurement and data processing methods for the equivalent optical BRDF of a solar panel based on a large-scale spot are proposed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,645 Views
17 Pages

Pose Measurement of Non-Cooperative Space Targets Based on Point Line Feature Fusion in Low-Light Environments

  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Jiaxin Wu,
  • Han Ai,
  • Delian Liu and ,
  • Chao Mei and
  • Maosen Xiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Pose measurement of non-cooperative targets in space is one of the key technologies in space missions. However, most existing methods simulate well-lit environments and do not consider the degradation of algorithms in low-light conditions. Additional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,207 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Urban Microscopic Nighttime Light Environment Based on the Coupling Observation of Remote Sensing and UAV Observation

  • Baogang Zhang,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Ruicong Li,
  • Jie Liu and ,
  • Lie Feng,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Weili Jiao and
  • Liang Lang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 September 2024

The urban canopy refers to the spatial area at the average height range of urban structures. The light environment of the urban canopy not only influences the ecological conditions of the canopy layer region but also serves as an indicator of the upw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nighttime Light Remote Sensing Products for Urban Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,071 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2025

Smartphone-based strain monitoring of structural components is an emerging approach to structural health monitoring. However, the existing techniques suffer from limited accuracy and poor cross-device adaptability. This study aims to optimize the sma...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
12,345 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2013

The importance of vegetation structure and biomass in controlling land-atmosphere exchange is widely recognized, but measurements of canopy structure are challenging, time consuming, and often rely on destructive methods. The Microsoft Kinect is an i...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,540 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2026

The extraction of the light stripe center is a pivotal step in line-structured light vision measurement. This paper addresses a key challenge in the online measurement of train wheel treads, where the diverse and complex profile characteristics of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensors and Signal Processing in Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,864 Views
21 Pages

Measured and Predicted Speckle Correlation from Diffractive Metasurface Diffusers

  • Sif Fugger,
  • Jonathan Gow,
  • Hongfeng Ma,
  • Villads Egede Johansen and
  • Ulrich J. Quaade

5 September 2024

Speckles are inherent in structured laser-based light projection using diffractive optics such as metasurfaces or diffractive optical elements (DOEs). One application of structured light is to provide illumination for machine vision and depth sensing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Diffractive Optics)

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