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Efficient Completeness Inspection Using Real-Time 3D Color Reconstruction with a Dual-Laser Triangulation System

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Integrated Imaging and Vision Techniques for Industrial Inspection

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In this chapter, we present the final system resulting from the European Project “3DComplete” aimed at creating a low-cost and flexible quality inspection system capable of capturing 2.5D color data for completeness inspection. The system uses a single color camera to capture at the same time 3D data with laser triangulation and color texture with a special projector of a narrow line of white light, which are then combined into a color 2.5D model in real time. Many examples of completeness inspection tasks are reported, which are extremely difficult to analyze with the state-of-the-art 2D-based methods. Our system has been integrated into a real production environment, showing that completeness inspection incorporating 3D technology can be readily achieved in a short time at low costs.

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This research has been funded by the European Unions 7th Framework program managed by REAResearch Executive Agency (http://ec.europa.eu/research/rea—FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement No. 262009, 3D Complete project.

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Munaro, M., So, E.W.Y., Tonello, S., Menegatti, E. (2015). Efficient Completeness Inspection Using Real-Time 3D Color Reconstruction with a Dual-Laser Triangulation System. In: Liu, Z., Ukida, H., Ramuhalli, P., Niel, K. (eds) Integrated Imaging and Vision Techniques for Industrial Inspection. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6741-9_7

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