Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo

With the gradual application of 3D reconstruction technology in underwater scenes, the design of vision-based reconstruction models has become an important research direction for human ocean exploration and development. The underwater laser triangulation method is the most commonly used approach, ye...

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Main Authors: Yang Yang, Yimei Liu, Eric Rigall, Yifan Yin, Shu Zhang, Junyu Dong
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/840
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author Yang Yang
Yimei Liu
Eric Rigall
Yifan Yin
Shu Zhang
Junyu Dong
author_facet Yang Yang
Yimei Liu
Eric Rigall
Yifan Yin
Shu Zhang
Junyu Dong
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description With the gradual application of 3D reconstruction technology in underwater scenes, the design of vision-based reconstruction models has become an important research direction for human ocean exploration and development. The underwater laser triangulation method is the most commonly used approach, yet it misses details during the reconstruction of sparse point clouds, which do not meet the requirements of practical applications. On the other hand, existing underwater photometric stereo methods can accurately reconstruct local details of target objects, but they require relative stillness to be maintained between the camera and the target, which is practically difficult to achieve in underwater imaging environments. In this paper, we propose an underwater target reconstruction algorithm that combines laser triangulation and multispectral photometric stereo (MPS) to address the aforementioned practical problems in underwater 3D reconstruction.This algorithm can obtain more comprehensive 3D surface data of underwater objects through mobile measurement. At the same time, we propose to optimize the laser place calibration and laser line separation processes, further improving the reconstruction performance of underwater laser triangulation and multispectral photometric stereo. The experimental results show that our method achieves higher-precision and higher-density 3D reconstruction than current state-of-the-art methods.
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spelling doaj-art-a293fea490034c82b04bec30859a4bfb2025-08-20T03:47:58ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122025-04-0113584010.3390/jmse13050840Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric StereoYang Yang0Yimei Liu1Eric Rigall2Yifan Yin3Shu Zhang4Junyu Dong5Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, ChinaFaculty of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, ChinaFaculty of Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, ChinaFaculty of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, ChinaFaculty of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, ChinaFaculty of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, ChinaWith the gradual application of 3D reconstruction technology in underwater scenes, the design of vision-based reconstruction models has become an important research direction for human ocean exploration and development. The underwater laser triangulation method is the most commonly used approach, yet it misses details during the reconstruction of sparse point clouds, which do not meet the requirements of practical applications. On the other hand, existing underwater photometric stereo methods can accurately reconstruct local details of target objects, but they require relative stillness to be maintained between the camera and the target, which is practically difficult to achieve in underwater imaging environments. In this paper, we propose an underwater target reconstruction algorithm that combines laser triangulation and multispectral photometric stereo (MPS) to address the aforementioned practical problems in underwater 3D reconstruction.This algorithm can obtain more comprehensive 3D surface data of underwater objects through mobile measurement. At the same time, we propose to optimize the laser place calibration and laser line separation processes, further improving the reconstruction performance of underwater laser triangulation and multispectral photometric stereo. The experimental results show that our method achieves higher-precision and higher-density 3D reconstruction than current state-of-the-art methods.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/840laser triangulationmultispectral photometric stereounderwater target3D reconstruction
spellingShingle Yang Yang
Yimei Liu
Eric Rigall
Yifan Yin
Shu Zhang
Junyu Dong
Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
laser triangulation
multispectral photometric stereo
underwater target
3D reconstruction
title Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
title_full Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
title_fullStr Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
title_full_unstemmed Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
title_short Underwater Target 3D Reconstruction via Integrated Laser Triangulation and Multispectral Photometric Stereo
title_sort underwater target 3d reconstruction via integrated laser triangulation and multispectral photometric stereo
topic laser triangulation
multispectral photometric stereo
underwater target
3D reconstruction
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/5/840
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