A GPU based real-time image processing for an axis-symmetrical optical laser triangulation system

Pedro D. V. Buschinelli; Gabriel A. B. Landeira; Christian Kohler; Armando Albertazzi Jr.; Guilherme B Teixeira da Silva

doi:10.1117/12.930181

15 October 2012 A GPU based real-time image processing for an axis-symmetrical optical laser triangulation system

Pedro D. V. Buschinelli, Gabriel A. B. Landeira, Christian Kohler, Armando Albertazzi Jr., Guilherme B Teixeira da Silva

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Proceedings Volume 8498, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing VI; 849802 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930181
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

An axis-symmetrical optical laser triangulation system was developed by the authors to measure the inner geometry of long pipes used in the oil industry. It has a special optical configuration able to acquire shape information of the inner geometry of a section of a pipe from a single image frame. It uses a radial light sheet and conical triangulation to measure the inner geometry of pipes in cylindrical coordinates. A set of equally spaced images of 1024 x 1024 pixels is acquired at 50 Hz while the device is moved along the pipe’s axis. The measured geometry is analyzed to identify defects like corrosion damage. A GPU based processing algorithm has been developed to make the system able to process these images and display the geometrical/measurement result in real-time. The algorithm implements an adaptive threshold filter and a light intensity peak search using a graphic processing unit programming architecture (CUDA). Prior to the parallel algorithms (called kernels) a texture data type is used to remap the image, converting from polar to Cartesian coordinates, mapping angular and radial values in a 2D pixel data matrix. Radial lines are only scanned in a limited range (256 pixels) between a minimum and a maximum radius value. The achieved image processing frequency is about 470 frames per second (FPS) using a notebook equipped with a GTX 285m graphics card.

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Pedro D. V. Buschinelli, Gabriel A. B. Landeira, Christian Kohler, Armando Albertazzi Jr., and Guilherme B Teixeira da Silva "A GPU based real-time image processing for an axis-symmetrical optical laser triangulation system", Proc. SPIE 8498, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing VI, 849802 (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930181

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