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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2018
Sick Ag, Waldkirch, DE;
Patric Beinschob, Waldkirch, DE;
SICK AG, Waldkirch, DE;
Abstract
A method of calibrating a camera and a laser scanner for their sensor fusion is provided whereby the camera records a camera image of a scene and the laser scanner at least partly scans the scene with a scanning beam and records a remission image from the respective angular position of the scanning beam and from the intensity determined at the angular position of the scanning beam remitted from the scene, wherein an offset and/or a relative orientation between the camera and the laser scanner is determined from a comparison of the camera image and the remission image. Distances with respect to the remission image are here also determined by the laser scanner and distances with respect to the camera image are reconstructed; and in that a correspondence search of corresponding features in the camera image and in the remission image is carried out in three-dimensional space for the comparison.