Fringe-pattern projection systems are capable of non-contacting 3D surface full-field measurement with high accuracy. However, the systems are prone to intensity saturation and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when measuring objects with a large range of reflectivity across the surface. Intensity saturation occurs when the light intensity directed to the camera exceeds the maximum intensity quantization level. A low SNR occurs when there is a low intensity modulation compared to the amount of noise in the image. Saturation and low SNR can result in significant measurement error. This paper presents a method for saturation avoidance during object-surface measurement, by adaptively adjusting the projected fringe-pattern intensities, through the maximum input gray level (MIGL). A high SNR can be maintained while avoiding saturation by combining the intensities from phase-shifted images captured at different MIGL, into a set of composite phase-shifted images. In measurement of a black and white checkerboard at different depths, the newly developed method reduced errors by an average 0.25 mm compared to the highest accuracy measurement using a uniform MIGL.


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    Title :

    Saturation avoidance by adaptive fringe projection in phase-shifting 3D surface-shape measurement


    Contributors:
    Waddington, C (author) / Kofman, J (author)


    Publication date :

    2010-10-01


    Size :

    315000 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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