Rachakonda, P.
, Muralikrishnan, B.
and Sawyer, D.
(2018),
Metrological Evaluation of Contrast Target Center Algorithm for Terrestrial Laser Scanners, Measurement, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925952 (Accessed May 8, 2026)
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Metrological Evaluation of Contrast Target Center Algorithm for Terrestrial Laser Scanners
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Contrast targets are used with Terrestrial Laser Scanners, typically for long range scanning and registering multiple scans in a scene. These targets are very simple in construction and inexpensive to fabricate. Some original equipment manufacturers (OEM) provide software to determine the center of contrast targets, but many end-users use third party software to perform post-processing and is a challenging task. Further, different OEM software may produce different target centers for the same target dataset. In this context, this paper describes and evaluates a novel algorithm developed at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), to calculate the center of a contrast target and compares its performance in various scan conditions. To our knowledge, no known algorithm exists in open literature for this purpose and is the motivation for this work.Citation
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contrast targets, checkerboard targets, laser scanners, TLS, documentary standards
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Created October 26, 2018