A two-phase unwrapping three-dimensional measurement method based on phase shift coding

Abstract

The periodic misalignment of the wrapping phase and fringe order based on the phase-shift + coding method is known to occur easily, leading to jump errors in absolute phase recovery. This paper proposes a two-phase unwrapping method based on shifting-phase coding. This approach encodes the fringe order information and the wrapping phase into the four-step phase shift mode. It generates four composite fringe patterns to directly resolve the wrapping phase and fringe order, thus improving the measurement speed by reducing the number of fringe projections. The interleaved wrapping phases are then constructed by a sequence that changes the initial wrapping phase. The two-phase unwrapping becomes the absolute phase, so the phase error is avoided and the measurement accuracy is improved. The proposed strategy’s effectiveness is proved by the comparison experiments of different methods. Similarly, the suggested method’s reliability is verified by the measurement experiments of several discontinuous objects.

KEYWORDS:

• 3D fast measurement
• Fringe projection
• shifting-phase coding
• phase unwrapping

Acknowledgment

This project is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.52365067), Jiangxi Province major academic and technical leaders training plan-leading talent project (Grant No.20204BCJ22010), Science and Technology on Electro-optic Control Laboratory Jointly funded with Aviation Science Fund (Grant No.20200051056001).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).