Embedded Line Scan Image Sensors: The Low Cost Alternative for High Speed Imaging
Abstract
In this paper we propose a low-cost high-speed imaging line scan system. We replace an expensive industrial line scan camera and illumination with a custom-built set-up of cheap off-the-shelf components, yielding a measurement system with comparative quality while costing about 20 times less. We use a low-cost linear (1D) image sensor, cheap optics including a LED-based or LASER-based lighting and an embedded platform to process the images. A step-by-step method to design such a custom high speed imaging system and select proper components is proposed. Simulations allowing to predict the final image quality to be obtained by the set-up has been developed. Finally, we applied our method in a lab, closely representing the real-life cases. Our results shows that our simulations are very accurate and that our low-cost line scan set-up acquired image quality compared to the high-end commercial vision system, for a fraction of the price.
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@article{arxiv.1612.02218,
title = {Embedded Line Scan Image Sensors: The Low Cost Alternative for High Speed Imaging},
author = {Stef Van Wolputte and Wim Abbeloos and Stijn Helsen and Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani and Toon Goedemé},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02218},
year = {2016}
}
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2015 International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)