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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-1133-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Remote Pipe Diameter Measurement from a single Image using Laser Scale Projection
with a Depth Compensation Model</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bilbáo</surname>
<given-names>Alice Weza Fava</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Galvão</surname>
<given-names>Leonardo Sales</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Regner</surname>
<given-names>Daniel Juchem</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4529-8335</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wendhausen</surname>
<given-names>Moacir</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Waltrich</surname>
<given-names>Gierri</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ferreira</surname>
<given-names>Carla Alves Marinho</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pinto</surname>
<given-names>Tiago Loureiro Figaro da Costa</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Labmetro, Mechanical Engineering Department, UFSC, 88090470 Florianópolis SC, Brazil</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>CENPES/Petrobras, 21941-915, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>1133</fpage>
<lpage>1138</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Alice Weza Fava Bilbáo et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>The dimensional measurement of cylindrical components, such as pipes, is a critical demand for quality control in industrial inspection. Monocular (single-view) computer vision-based approaches offer a low-cost and highly flexible solution but face the fundamental challenge of scale ambiguity. This paper proposes a method for measuring pipe diameter that solves this ambiguity by utilizing the projection of two laser points onto the object from the beam-splitting of a single laser source. The system projects two points with a known and previously calibrated distance onto the object&apos;s surface, providing the necessary scale information (mm/pixel) for the image. However, the projection onto the curved surface of the pipe induces a systematic error, as the laser dots land at a different depth (Z) than the depth of the apparent edges of the diameter in the 2D image. The main contribution of this work is the development and validation of a curvature compensation algorithm that mathematically corrects this depth distortion. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method, by compensating for the curvature, enables precise diameter measurement with a simple monocular system. For a pipe with a nominal diameter of 165 mm, measured at 6 m distance, the bias in the estimated diameter was reduced from 1.5% to less than 0.2%.</p>
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