Research on River Channel Terrain Measurement Method Based on Binocular Vision

For the existed river channel terrain measurement method defects such as complex measurement process and high performance equipments requirement, in the paper a terrain measurement method based on binocular vision is proposed. Firstly, in proposed system binocular vision measurement parameters are calculated on the basis of monocular calibration; secondly, artificial signs are located in river channel and detected based on improved Harris corners detection algorithm; thirdly, the feature corners in binocular images are matched based on epipolar constraint and SIFT algorithm; finally, for corrected images feature corners location method is proposed, and the river channel terrain is measured. Experiments show that in the proposed method the river channel terrain can be measured accurately, and the method has good reference value to measure other irregular scenes.