Hu Liangmei, Wang Zhumeng, Gao Jun, Zhang Xudong, Wu Guosong. PMD distance information and high resolution RGB image datafusion based on bicubic interpolation with credibility[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2013, 18(6): 621-627. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20130602.
The PMD(photonic mixer device) camera is a three-dimensional imaging device based on TOF(time-of-flight)
which is able to obtain high-precision distance information with two-dimensional gray-scale images. However
it has some disadvantages
such as low horizontal resolution
big random noise
etc. In this paper
we fuse the PMD distance information and a high-resolution RGB image
proposing a new kind of data fusion method based on texture projection and bicubic interpolation with credibility. This method fully considers the relation between signal amplitude of the PMD camera and the credibility of the distance information
strengthening the influence of the fusion result by the precise distance information. Furthermore it has provided the reconstruction of PMD images in a world coordinate system through distance information
reducing the computational complexity. The experimental results show that this approach obtains high-resolution images with color information and distance information. The distance information of the fused image is more accurate and rich