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A new method for increasing accuracy of distance measurement based on single visual camera

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Camera has been widely used in computer vision and mobile robotics applications because the sensor provides complementary information. However, the chief drawback of camera is that it only can provide 2D image information without depth information. There are lots of people studying the distance measurement with single visual camera, however it is difficult to achieve high precision. Usually we use two cameras to form stereo image and measure distance. Obviously it is complex. In this paper, we study the reason why distance measurement with single camera can hardly achieve high precision and propose a new method for improving the accuracy. We evaluate the proposed method and compare with existing methods to demonstrate the efficiency and high precision.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61701233).

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging and Intelligent Sense, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Zewei Liu, Dongming Lu, Weixian Qian, Kan Ren, Guohua Gu & Jun Zhang

  2. Xi’an Institute of Applied Optics, Xi’an, 710065, China

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Liu, Z., Lu, D., Qian, W. et al. A new method for increasing accuracy of distance measurement based on single visual camera. Opt Quant Electron 51, 66 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-019-1786-z

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