A Machine Vision Method for Correction of Eccentric Error Based on Adaptive Enhancement Algorithm

In the procedure of surface defects detection for large-aperture aspherical optical elements, it is of vital significance to adjust the optical axis of the element to be coaxial with the mechanical spin axis accurately. Therefore, a machine vision method for eccentric error correction is proposed in this article. Focusing on the severe defocus blur of reference crosshair image caused by the imaging characteristic of the aspherical optical element, which may lead to the failure of correction, an adaptive enhancement algorithm (AEA) is proposed to strengthen the crosshair image. AEA consists of the existed guided filter dark channel dehazing algorithm (GFA) and the proposed lightweight multiscale densely connected network (MDC-Net). The enhancement effect of GFA is excellent but time-consuming, and the enhancement effect of MDC-Net is slightly inferior but strongly real time. As AEA will be executed dozens of times during each correction procedure, its real-time performance is very important. Therefore, by setting the empirical threshold of definition evaluation function SMD2, GFA and MDC-Net are, respectively, applied to highly and slightly blurred crosshair images so as to ensure the enhancement effect while saving as much time as possible. AEA has certain robustness in time-consuming performance, which takes an average time of 0.2721 and 0.0963 s to execute GFA and MDC-Net separately on ten 200 pixels × 200 pixels region of interest (ROI) images with different degrees of blur, and also, the eccentricity error can be reduced to be within 10 μm by our method.