The synchronization between high-speed digital cameras and computers is very important for the binocular vision system
based on light-weighted passive IR reflective markers and IR LED array PCB board, which is often used to measure the
3-D motion parameters of a rocket motor. In order to solve this problem, a comparison on the existing approaches to
camera synchronization in the published literature was conducted. The advantages and disadvantages of the currently
used methods were illustrated and their suitable applications were discussed. A new method, which uses self-made
hardware resetting camera and software triggering image acquisition board, is provided. The self-made hardware is used
to send TTL signal to two image acquisition boards one time per second. The TTL signal is used to reset two cameras
and two image acquisition boards as PRIN signal, and then two image acquisition boards send same EXSYNC signal to
two cameras. In this way, two cameras can be synchronized to exposure and capture images in the mean time. The test
results indicated that the new approach designed in this paper can meet the demand of image acquisition at a speed of
200f/s, whose synchronization accuracy is up to micro second.
To determine the coordinates of infrared markers, it is very important for the binocular vision system based on lightweighted
passive infrared reflective markers and infrared LED array PCB board, which is often used to measure the 3-D
motion parameters of a rocket motor. Therefore, a fast centroid estimation algorithm, which segments the infrared image
using self-adapting thresholding method, and then the centroid of infrared markers is calculated using improved
statistical averaging technique, was developed. A comparison was made between the newly developed algorithm and
other algorithms such as traditional statistical averaging, FFT and least-squares method. It is found through comparison
that the new algorithm is more suitable for high-speed motion analysis due to its higher accuracy and faster processing
speed. Experiments performed on real-world images show that the algorithm can greatly improve the speed of the
calculation and meantime ensure the demand of precision on the basis of the better image segmentation result and
improved statistical averaging technique.3
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