Camera calibration with planar crossed fringe patterns

We introduced a novel crossed fringe pattern as the model plane for camera calibration. It can provide abundant control points, in extreme case each pixel on the CCD sensor can be taken as control points. Fourier Fringe Analysis is used to extract the phase distributions from the image of this pattern. Each control point consists of the locations of a pixel and the world coordinates, which can be calculated from the phase distributions. It avoids the complex extracting procedure of those classical control points and could produce abundant control points. Both computer simulation and real data have confirmed the proposed technique is easy to use, reliable and high accurate. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.