Full space coordinate measurement method with a portable light pen by using hybrid light field imaging

The light pen is one of the most useful spatial coordinate measurement methods. However, due to the principle of vision measurement, the traditional light pen has the disadvantages such as limited measurement range, large structure size and complex calibration process. In order to revolutionize the design of light pen, this paper proposes a full space coordinate measurement method with a portable light pen by using hybrid light field imaging. Firstly, a light field imaging system with depth estimation ability has been introduced to simplify the light pen structure to three target points by using P3P method. In order to improve the accuracy of the depth estimation, a hybrid imaging method and EPI method have been used. Secondly, a full spatial measurement method with a rotation platform has been presented in detail. Finally, the experiments have been designed to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method.