METHOD OF CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL AND OBJECT RECOGNIZING DEVICE

• US 20100156896A1
• Filed: 11/17/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Shono, Kazuhiro, Ishida, Akira, Togawa, Yoshizo, ueki, Junichiro, ICHIMURA, Kengo, Iida, Toyoo
• Application Number:
  US12/619,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156896A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/245 using a plurality of fixed, simultaneously operating transducers G01B11/2408 - G01B11/2425, G01B11/255 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 2210/52 Combining or merging partially overlapping images to an overall image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/00 General purpose image data processing

Abstract

This invention aims to ensure accuracy of a three-dimensional model to be registered. With information a of three-dimensional information a, b, c restored by measuring an actual model of a work, which is a target of three-dimensional recognition, from different directions as a reference, other three-dimensional information b, c are coordinate transformed so as to be aligned with the reference three-dimensional information, and three-dimensional information d including all of three-dimensional information b′, c′ after the transformation and the reference three-dimensional information a is created. The three-dimensional information d is temporarily registered as the three-dimensional model. A difference amount among the integrated three-dimensional information a, b′, c′ is calculated, and an evaluation index based on the difference value is displayed with an image view of a contour pattern represented by the three-dimensional model. A user checks the accuracy of the three-dimensional model on this display screen from a degree of variation of the contour line representing the same site and a value of the evaluation index, and determines whether or not to actually register the three-dimensional model d.

Claims

1. A method of creating a three-dimensional model of a target object to be recognized by executing a process of restoring three-dimensional information of a contour line through three-dimensional measurement using a stereo camera with respect to an actual model of the target object to be recognized while arbitrarily changing a positional relationship between the actual model and the stereo camera every time, aligning the three-dimensional information restored by the measurement of a plurality of times, and integrating each piece of the three-dimensional information after the alignment;

wherein the steps of;

extracting information in an overlapped relationship by matching a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information to be integrated with each other and calculating a difference amount between contour patterns represented by the extracted information,

determining an evaluation value representing accuracy of integrated information including the plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information based on the difference amount, and

outputting the determined evaluation value, are executed before integrating or after integrating the plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information.

2. The method of creating a three-dimensional model according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

accepting a determination input on whether or not to adopt the integrated information corresponding to the evaluation value as the three-dimensional model after the output of the evaluation value; and

confirming the integrated information as the three-dimensional model in response to accepting the determination input to adopt the integrated information as the three-dimensional model.

3. The method of creating a three-dimensional model according to claim 1, wherein

a step of generating an image reflecting all contour patterns by each piece of three-dimensional information after the alignment is executed at least before the step of outputting the evaluation value, the step of outputting the evaluation value including displaying the evaluation value along with the image.

4. The method of creating a three-dimensional model according to claim 1, wherein

in the three-dimensional measurement of every time on the actual model, the three-dimensional information having a configuration in which a three-dimensional coordinate representing a contour line is grouped to a plurality of three-dimensional segments is generated;

and

in the step of calculating the difference amount, the difference amount related to the combination is calculated for every combination of the three-dimensional segments in correspondence relationship between the three-dimensional information before integration.

5. The method of creating a three-dimensional model according to claim 1, wherein

in the three-dimensional measurement of every time on the actual model, the three-dimensional information having a configuration in which a three-dimensional coordinate representing a contour line is grouped to a plurality of three-dimensional segments is generated;

and

in the step of calculating the difference amount, an intersection between each three-dimensional segment is combined for every correspondence between the three-dimensional information before integration, and the difference amount related to the combination is calculated for every combination.

6. The method of creating a three-dimensional model according to claim 1, wherein

in three-dimensional measurement of every time, with an actual model attached with a mark having a known geometric feature on the surface as a target, the positional relationship between the actual model and each camera is adjusted so that the mark is contained in fields of all cameras configuring the stereo camera;

and

in the step of calculating the difference amount, each piece of the three-dimensional information to be integrated is matched by a contour pattern of the mark based on the known geometric feature to extract the contour pattern of the mark, and the difference amount between the contour patterns extracted from each piece of the three-dimensional information is calculated.

7. An object recognizing device comprising a three-dimensional measurement unit for restoring three-dimensional information of a contour line of a target object to be recognized through three-dimensional measurement using a stereo camera, a recognition processing unit for recognizing a position and an orientation of the target object to be recognized by matching the restored three-dimensional information with a three-dimensional model registered in advance, a three-dimensional model creating unit for aligning a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information restored through the three-dimensional measurement executed by the three-dimensional measurement unit from different directions on an actual model of the target object to be recognized and creating a three-dimensional model to be used by the recognition processing unit by integrating each piece of the three-dimensional information after the alignment, and a three-dimensional model registering unit for registering the created three-dimensional model;

wherein

the three-dimensional model creating unit includes,

a difference amount calculating portion for extracting information in an overlapped relationship in each piece of the three-dimensional information by matching a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information to be integrated with each other and calculating a difference amount between contour patterns represented by the extracted information,

an evaluation value determining portion for determining an evaluation value representing accuracy of the integrated information including the plurality of pieces of three-dimensional information based on the difference amount calculated by the difference amount calculating portion, and

an output portion for outputting the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining portion.

8. The object recognizing device according to claim 7, wherein the three-dimensional model creating unit further includes,

an input portion for accepting a determination input on whether or not to adopt the integrated information corresponding to the evaluation value as the three-dimensional model after the output of the evaluation value, and

a model confirming portion for confirming the integrated information as the three-dimensional model when the input portion accepts the determination input to adopt the integrated information as the three-dimensional model.

9. The object recognizing device according to claim 7, wherein

the three-dimensional model creating unit further includes an image generating portion for generating an image reflecting all contour patterns by each piece of the three-dimensional information after the alignment;

and

the output portion is configured as a portion for displaying the evaluation value along with the image generated by the image generating portion.

10. The object recognizing device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a registering unit for registering a contour pattern based on a geometric feature for a mark created on a premise of being attached to a surface of the actual model;

wherein

the difference amount calculating portion extracts the contour pattern of the mark by matching the three-dimensional information to be integrated by the contour pattern registered in the registering unit, and calculates the difference amount between the contour patterns extracted from each piece of the three-dimensional information.