• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 35, Issue 2, 029001 (2023)
Liping Chen1、2, Yongjian Xu2、*, Zichen Yu1、2, Rixin Wang2、3, Xufeng Peng2、3, Yizhen Xu2、3, and Ling Yu2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
  • 2Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • 3University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202335.220109 Cite this Article
    Liping Chen, Yongjian Xu, Zichen Yu, Rixin Wang, Xufeng Peng, Yizhen Xu, Ling Yu. Neutral beam infrared image distortion correction based on vanishing point detection[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2023, 35(2): 029001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The key parameters of the neutral beam, such as beam uniformity and beam divergence angle, can be obtained by analyzing the infrared images generated by the beam bombarding the target surface. Due to the camera setup angle, the IR images show geometric distortion, which affects the accurate analysis of the beam parameters. Therefore, so the images should be corrected for the distortion. The traditional Hough transform, canny lines algorithm, and probabilistic Hough transform methods are not effective in detecting straight lines on this image, and there is a problem of detecting discontinuous and incorrect line segments. In this paper, Sobel filter is used to sharpen the infrared image in the horizontal and vertical directions respectively and line segment feature is detected by line segment detector (LSD) algorithm. Then complete straight lines are obtained in the image by clustering and fitting the line segments according to the geometric and angular relationships between them. Vanishing points is calculated by the intersection points of the lines. Finally, the corrected image is obtained based on the perspective relationship. Experiment results prove that this method can achieve automatic and effective correction of neutral beam infrared images and it lays a basis for obtaining key parameters of the beam.
    Liping Chen, Yongjian Xu, Zichen Yu, Rixin Wang, Xufeng Peng, Yizhen Xu, Ling Yu. Neutral beam infrared image distortion correction based on vanishing point detection[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2023, 35(2): 029001
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