SBOU157 September   2015

 

  1.   Voxel Viewer
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 Introduction
      1. 1.1 TI 3D Depth Sensors
      2. 1.2 Operating Principles
      3. 1.3 Voxel Viewer and Voxel SDK
    3. 2 User Interface
      1. 2.1 Menu Bar
        1. 2.1.1 File
        2. 2.1.2 Settings
          1. 2.1.2.1 Camera Profiles
          2. 2.1.2.2 Edit Profiles
          3. 2.1.2.3 Statistics
        3. 2.1.3 Windows
        4. 2.1.4 Help
      2. 2.2 Source Bar
      3. 2.3 Main Viewport
      4. 2.4 Left Pane
        1. 2.4.1 Side Viewports
      5. 2.5 Right Pane
        1. 2.5.1 Frequently Used Parameters Window
        2. 2.5.2 Parameter List Window
      6. 2.6 Bottom Pane
        1. 2.6.1 Watch List and Statistics Window
        2. 2.6.2 Data Flow Diagram Window
        3. 2.6.3 Logs Window
    4. 3 Basic Operations
      1. 3.1 Connecting Devices
      2. 3.2 Adjusting the Settings
      3. 3.3 Visualizing the Data
        1. 3.3.1 Ambient
        2. 3.3.2 Amplitude
        3. 3.3.3 Depth
        4. 3.3.4 Distance
        5. 3.3.5 Phase
        6. 3.3.6 Point Clouds
        7. 3.3.7 Histogram
      4. 3.4 De-Noising
        1. 3.4.1 Temporal Filters
          1. 3.4.1.1 IIR Filter
          2. 3.4.1.2 Median Filter
        2. 3.4.2 Spatial Filters
          1. 3.4.2.1 Smooth Filter
          2. 3.4.2.2 Bilateral Filter
          3. 3.4.2.3 Median Filters
        3. 3.4.3 Recommended Starting Point
    5. 4 Calibration
      1. 4.1 Lens Calibration
      2. 4.2 Frequency Calibration
      3. 4.3 Crosstalk Calibration
      4. 4.4 Nonlinearity Calibration
      5. 4.5 Temperature Calibration
      6. 4.6 Common Phase Calibration
      7. 4.7 Pixel-Wise Calibration
      8. 4.8 Profiles and Calibration
    6. 5 TFC Programming
    7. 6 Summary
    8. 7 References

1.2 Operating Principles

All of these chipsets measure depth based on ToF principle where the scene is illuminated with modulated light at 850-nm wavelength. The phase difference between the emitted light and the light reflecting off the scene is measured, per pixel, and converted to depth; then the depth image is converted to point clouds, where each pixel is transformed into 3D coordinates with the origin at the optical center of the 3D ToF imager.

fig01_sbou157.gifFigure 1. 3D Time-of-Flight Sensor Operating Principle