Research on Ranging Method Based on Binocular Stereo Vision

Binocular stereo vision ranging method taking contour boundary center of measurement object as matching features was investigated. And experimental platform for binocular stereo vision ranging system was built up. The stereo vision ranging system comprised four modules: camera calibration, stereo calibration, stereo rectification and features extraction. Firstly, the intrinsic parameters of single camera were obtained by camera calibration and relative pose of two cameras was obtained by stereo calibration. Then the left and right images were rectified into a frontal parallel arrangement by Bouguet’s method. The edge pixels of contours were detected by image processing. Then the disparity and the distance was calculated taking contour center as matching features. Finally, measurement error analysis was performed to verify the proposed method with good practicability.