The invention discloses a circle center locating method of a circular target, mainly relating to a great deal of target identification and target location. Firstly, rough circle center location is carried out to an image by using a simple contour
centroid method, a key square region is extracted as a
region of interest according to the information of a rough location circle center and a rough location
radius, and pixel-level edge location is carried out to the circular target in the
region of interest by a canny operator; then sub-pixel location is carried out to the circular target according to the geometric features and the gray information of the circle, therefore, a precise coordinate of sub-pixel edge points is obtained; after that, a curvature filtering method and an average filtering method are respectively used for filtering 'isolated points' and
noise occurring in the sub-pixel edge points; finally, a
least squares method is utilized to fit a circle to the filtered sub-pixel edge points so as to obtain the final circular center and
radius. The method not only effectively improves the precision of circle center location, but also improves the robustness thereof, thus further improving the
measurement precision of a measurement
system and perfecting the stability of the measurement
system.