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I came across a test pattern a few years back in a robotics laboratory that I remember being told was some sort of test pattern to train cameras for robotic vision. It was like some sort of checkerboard pattern but it was not a uniform pattern. The image is my best rendition of it. Does anyone know what this type of pattern is called and what its use is?

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A fiducial?

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A coded aperture for computational photography?

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A 2D barcode or bokode?

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  • \$\begingroup\$ ah figured out what it was, but that coded aperture is pretty interesting, glad you posted that. \$\endgroup\$
    – stbtra
    May 19, 2010 at 5:35
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Another possibility is that it is a "non-repeating pattern" used to establish register between two cameras.

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Ok turns out it was a camera calibration pattern.

edit: NM my mistake

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    \$\begingroup\$ Which one matches the image you supplied? \$\endgroup\$
    – W5VO
    May 19, 2010 at 7:34
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    \$\begingroup\$ Agree with W5VO... most of the pictures on that page look like sheets of dots, not the pixelated creature in your post. \$\endgroup\$
    – J. Polfer
    May 19, 2010 at 20:17
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yeah, Google Image Search just finds regular patterns of dots or checkerboards: google.com/images?q=camera+calibration+pattern It's probably a fiducial marker. \$\endgroup\$
    – endolith
    May 19, 2010 at 21:30

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