Reliability-guided phase unwrapping algorithm following noncontinuous path based on color fringe projection

The intrinsic drawbacks of existing reliability-based algorithms, they often fail to handle wrapped phase data contains error sources, such as phase discontinuities, noise and undersampling. These algorithms often calculate the reliability only relying on the recorded pixel intensity or wrapped phase value, but the intensity of pixel always exist many noises. In this paper, we present a new method to define the reliability of pixel and path of phase unwrapping, the pixel's intensity and color are employed in fringe analysis simultaneously. The reliability function is calculated based on modulation, second difference of wrapped phase, and second difference of modulation, then we present the concept of smoothness of path, the reliability of path is calculated based on reliability of pixel and smoothness of path. Experiment results validate our proposed algorithm is more accurate than many previous algorithms. The proposed algorithm can be used to unwrap the complex phase map with discontinuous jump, and can be implemented with high efficiency without any manual interface.     

基于分支设置的质量导引相位展开算法

二维相位展开方法是近年来较为活跃、引起关注的一个研究课题,它在许多测量应用中有着重要的作用。尽管掩膜阻断算法在多个领域都有成功应用实例,该算法存在着固有的缺陷。为了克服掩膜阻断算法的缺陷,综合分支阻断方法和质量导引方法的优点,提出一种基于分支设置的质量导引相位展开新算法。它先以一个初始质量图来引导分支的设置,然后把分支对应的相位质量设置为最低,从而产生一个新的质量图,最后按新质量图来引导相位展开,并使用几个包裹相位图来验证此方法的有效性。计算机模拟相位图和实际相位图的相位展开结果表明,在存在复杂轮廓不连续和高噪声的情况下,该算法优于模板阻断算法,能得到较好的相位展开结果。     

光学干涉图像处理中基于质量权值的离散余弦变换解包裹相位

为减少噪声对相位恢复过程的影响,快速得到正确的解包裹相位,提出了一种改进的相位解包裹方法——加权离散余弦变换解包裹算法。该方法把离散余弦变换和标识相位数据好坏的质量权值结合起来,兼有速度快和可靠度高的优势。为验证此算法,对模拟和实验得到的包裹相位图添加随机噪声和散粒噪声,同时采用加权与非加权离散余弦变换算法进行处理,所得到的解包裹结果与未加噪声的解包裹相位值进行比较,结果表明,通过加权离散余弦变换算法恢复的相位图比非加权离散余弦变换算法所恢复的相位图更接近于理想值,而且两种算法的运行速度基本相同,这证明提出的算法不仅保证了效率高的优点,而且所恢复的解包裹相位具有较好的噪声免疫能力和可靠度。     

Demodulation of a single interferogram based on continuous wavelet transform and phase derivative

A novel method based on continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and guidance of phase derivative is developed to measure the phase of a single fringe pattern which contains closed fringes. Wrapped phase values are retrieved by ridge extraction algorithms based on CWT which has the capability of better noise reduction and thus increases the resolution of measurement significantly. To further reduce the noise, the scales detected by maximum ridge algorithm are filtered iteratively before retrieval of wrapped phase. The proposed method also identifies any ambiguous point in a non-monotonous fringe pattern by directly tracking an inflexion point from an unwrapped phase map without the use of a carrier. The algorithm developed is validated by computer simulation and experimental results. Based on micro interferometry the experimental results for both static and dynamic deformations of a micro structure demonstrate that the proposed method is an effective tool for the analysis of closed fringe patterns and subsequent deformation measurement. However, the proposed technique is limited to measurement of surface which is relatively smooth compared to the mean wavelength of the light source. In addition, prior knowledge of the sign of surface slope is required in cases where a spatial carrier is not available or adaptable.     

Discussions on phase-reconstructing algorithms for 3D digitizing structure-light profilometry

For the 3D digitizing structure-light profilometry, five kinds of phase reconstructing (PR) algorithms, including Schofield's S-FFT (with 4 pairs of FFT & Inverse FFT operators) algorithm, Volkov's deterministic V-FFT PR algorithm (with only one pair of FFT operators and one Inverse FFT operator), quality-guided (QG) method, weighted least-square (WLS) method and a proposed Discrete-Cosine-Transform-Based (DCT-B) algorithm have been implemented and discussed in detail. The computer-simulated data show that the WLS and V-FFT enjoy the least phase error, but the QG algorithm achieves the trade-off between reliability and computational time. The S-FFT together with V-FFT method almost fails to deal with the experimental data with abrupt phase variance. Among the other three algorithms, the DCT-B algorithm shows its advantage over QG and WLS algorithms in settling these problems. Considering phase error and computational time, it could win the priority in PR. The experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed DCT-B algorithm could be firstly considered in the application of structure-light profilometry, especially to process the abrupt-phase maps.     

基于图切割的相位展开

剪切散斑干涉术中,普遍采取相移法提取相位,只可得到被包裹的相位信息,进一步量化计算之前,必须展开相位,但是大量的散斑噪音使相位展开变得非常困难.本文提出基于图切割理论的相位展开算法,将相位展开等价于整数的最优估计问题,通过最小化能量函数展开相位,无需对散斑包裹相位图进行滤波,就可以从包含大量散斑噪音的包裹相位图中准确地提取出真实相位,极大程度地保留了相位包裹图中的细节信息.对于同一幅模拟的散斑包裹相位图,传统的质量导向枝切法和最小二乘法的均方根误差分别为11.7076和4.9775,新算法的均方根误差则为0.9459,数值模拟与实验结果均验证了新算法优良的抗噪性能.     

基于图切割的相位展开

剪切散斑干涉术中,普遍采取相移法提取相位,只可得到被包裹的相位信息,进一步量化计算之前,必须展开相位,但是大量的散斑噪音使相位展开变得非常困难.本文提出基于图切割理论的相位展开算法,将相位展开等价于整数的最优估计问题,通过最小化能量函数展开相位,无需对散斑包裹相位图进行滤波,就可以从包含大量散斑噪音的包裹相位图中准确地提取出真实相位,极大程度地保留了相位包裹图中的细节信息.对于同一幅模拟的散斑包裹相位图,传统的质量导向枝切法和最小二乘法的均方根误差分别为11.707 6和4.977 5,新算法的均方根误差则为0.945 9,数值模拟与实验结果均验证了新算法优良的抗噪性能.     

基于方向图变换的快速不连续相位展开

几何突变导致的相位不连续一直是相位展开中具有挑战的问题。针对这一问题,提出基于方向与变换的快速不连续相位展开算法。在提出的算法中,利用图像的结构张量估计包裹相位图的方向,将方向图进行变换和差分计算得到的可靠的权重系数图作为加权最小二乘法的权重,并使用预处理共轭梯度法迭代求解。该算法可以快速地找出不连续位置,并在不连续分割后的区域进行单独的相位展开,具有很好的识别和展开效果。详细地描述了算法的原理和实现步骤,并对算法进行仿真和实验数据验证。实验结果表明:其相位展开的均方根误差为0.36,证明该算法能够快速、准确地对不连续的包裹相位进行展开。     

A new quality map for quality-guided phase unwrapping

A new quality map for quality-guided phase unwrapping is presented. The quality map is derived from the wrapped phase map directly and can reflect phase quality accurately. It is demonstrated that the proposed quality map is a good phase-quality indicator, with which the quality-guided unwrapping algorithm can retrieve a reliable phase profile.     

A simple method for phase wraps elimination or reduction in spatial fringe patterns

In this paper, we propose a simple method for processing a 2D wrapped phase map that contains a spatial carrier signal in order to completely eliminate, or greatly reduce, the number of phase wraps in the image. The 2D Fourier transform of the wrapped phase map is calculated. Then the spectrum is shifted to the origin in frequency space. After that, the inverse 2D Fourier transform is computed. Finally, a four-quadrant arctangent function is used to calculate the angle of the complex array that was produced by the inverse 2D Fourier transform. This produces a phase map with a smaller number of 2π phase jumps than the original phase map. In some cases, all of the phase wraps are eliminated and there is therefore no need to unwrap the resultant phase map. The reduction of the number of 2π phase jumps can reduce the execution time and improve the noise performance of some phase unwrapping algorithms such as the Flynn method. The validation of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated experimentally and also via computer-simulation.     

Discussion about the DCT/FFT phase-unwrapping algorithm for interferometric applications

After discussing Schofield's fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, a (weighted) discrete-cosine-transform-based (DCT-based) phase-unwrapping (PU) algorithm is described. The algorithm could unwrap some high-phase-variation map which the FFT algorithm could not solve. Although the DCT algorithm is derived from Schofield's FFT PU algorithm, unlike FFT, it avoids the mirroring operation in implementing the boundary conditions so that it has higher efficiency in PU. Furthermore, in order to improve the reliability and noise robustness, we introduce the phase derivative variance (PDV) quality weight extracted from quality map into the DCT algorithm. The unwrapped results of both the computer-simulated and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) data demonstrate that the (weighted) DCT PU algorithm is generally effective, especially in dealing with the high-phase-variation and/or irregular-phase-distribution maps.     

A fast,accurate phase unwrapping method for wavelet-transform profilometry

A novel phase unwrapping method used in wavelet-transform profilometry is presented to improve the accuracy and speed of the unwrapping process. The wrapped phase of the fringe image is extracted by using wavelet transform. How to establish quality map using scale factor at wavelet ridge is discussed firstly. The proposed method can reflect the reliability of the pixels in fringe image effectively. As the consuming time of traditional flood-fill phase unwrapping algorithm is too long, an improved quality-guided method is used in phase unwrapping process. We divide the wrapped phase map into two levels following the established quality map, and process these two levels using different algorithms. Compared with the traditional flood-fill algorithm, we can get the accurate result while the consuming time of the phase unwrapping process is much less by using the proposed method. Simulation and experiment results verify that the 3D information of the measured object can be obtained rapidly and accurately by using the proposed method. Also the dynamic object can be measured too.     

Complex-amplitude-based phase unwrapping method for digital holographic microscopy

A complex-amplitude-based phase unwrapping approach for digital holographic microscopy is proposed in this paper. A quality map is derived directly from the reconstructed complex amplitude distribution of object wave to evaluate noise influence and phase reliability in the wrapped phase image. Quality-guided phase unwrapping algorithm is then implemented with the quality map to retrieve continuous phase profile. Unwrapping errors caused by unreliable phase data are successfully suppressed. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated with simulation and experimental results.     

调制度分析在等步长相移法相位展开中的应用

推导了两种常用等步长相移算法的调制度表达式,提出一种新的调制度分析方法。该方法用于等步长相移法中基于加权最小二乘法的相位展开,能够充分利用调制度信息,构造二值和小数权重,从而增强相位展开过程对多种干扰因素的免疫力。实验结果说明了该方法的有效性和实用性。最后比较了二值权重和小数权重在加权最小二乘法的相位展开中的性能表现。     

含噪声包裹相位图的加权最小二乘相位展开算法研究

二维相位展开广泛应用在精密光学测量、自适应光学、合成孔径雷达、图像处理等领域中。为处理含噪声包裹相位图,以预条件共轭斜量法求解权重最小二乘相位展开方程。引入非加权二维离散余弦变换求解泊松方程得到的最小二乘相位解作为共轭斜量法的初始解,从而加快了收敛速度,同时提出一种新质量图确定算法求解过程中的权重项。计算机模拟和试验表明算法计算速度快,能有效地消除传统路径积分法在处理信噪比低包裹相位图时的"拉线"现象,是一种有效的相位展开方法。     

基于快速傅里叶变换的四种相位解包裹算法

为了快速准确地对含有噪声的包裹相位图进行相位展开,采用理论分析与计算机模拟及实验验证相结合的方法,对基于快速傅里叶变换（FFT）的四种典型算法四次FFT算法(4-FFT)、二次FFT算法（2-FFT）、四次离散余弦变换算法(4-DCT)及横向剪切干涉与FFT相结合的算法(LS-FFT)作了对比研究。结果表明:2-FFT算法运行速度最快,4-FFT算法次之,LS-FFT算法速度最慢;4-FFT算法对含有较强噪声和轻微欠采样的实验数据的处理效果是最好的;LS-FFT算法对强噪声数据的处理效果最差。     

用于相移点衍射干涉仪的加权最小二乘相位提取算法

针对现有的相位提取算法只对某些特定的误差不敏感,不能满足高精度光学检测的要求,本文引入一种等间隔多步移相算法—权重待定的加权最小二乘算法。通过在最小二乘算法中添加待定的权重,分析移相点衍射干涉仪中多种误差源对算法的影响,获得多组约束方程,从而确定权重和新算法。对新算法和标准四步算法、Hariharan五步算法进行比对分析,验证了新算法对PZT线性和二阶非线性移相不准、光强的一阶二阶波动和光源频率一阶二阶波动等误差抑制能力远远优于标准四步算法和Hariharan五步算法;新算法对CCD的量化误差、光强噪声、频率噪声的抑制能力也具有一定优势,且对CCD的二阶响应非线性完全不敏感。     

基于自适应加权窗口的相位质量图提取

加权相位解缠算法的解缠精度取决于所提取的质量图的可靠性。目前提取相位质量图的方法大多采用以各个像素为中心的固定窗口法,但当某些像素被噪声严重干扰时,采用固定窗口法提取质量图往往得不到正确的解缠结果。因此,提出了几种自适应加权窗口方法来提取相位质量图,并给出了具体的实现方法和步骤,同时采用加权小波变换相位解缠算法进行相位解缠。实验结果表明,采用自适应加权窗口方法提取相位质量图来确定初始权重系数能获得比较好的解缠效果。     

非单调条纹图的相位恢复新方法

在连续小波变换和展开相位拐点识别的基础上,提出一种非单调条纹图的相位恢复新方法.包裹相位通过连续小波变换的方法提取,提出小波变换尺度步长的选择准则及对粗糙尺度作迭代均值滤波的技术.基于展开相位拐点与符号歧义点的单应性,可通过检测并修正展开相化拐点的方法恢复非单调条纹图的真实相位.给出了详细的理论推导、数值模拟及实验验证过程.数值模拟包括一维及二维的含噪声信号,实验为基于显微干涉法的微桥的静动态形貌和变形测试.模拟及实验结果表明,该法只需一幅条纹图即可准确解调非单调条纹的相位,最大误差小于4%,且具有极强的抗噪能力.这为显微干涉测量提供了有效的相位恢复新手段.     

Robust wrapping-free phase retrieval method based on weighted least squares method

Phase unwrapping is one of the most challenging processes in many profilometry techniques. To sidestep the phase unwrapping process, Perciante et al. (2015) proposed a wrapping-free method to retrieve the phase based on the direct integration of the spatial derivatives of the fringe patterns. However, this method is only applicable to objects with phase continuity, so it may fail to handle fringe patterns containing complicated singularities such as noise, shadows, shears and surface discontinuities. In the light of this problems, a robust wrapping-free phase retrieval method is proposed that is based on the combined use of Perciante's method and the weighted least squares method. Two partial derivatives of the desired phase are obtained from the fringe patterns, while the carrier is eliminated using the direct phase difference method. The phase singularities are determined using a derivative variance correlation map (DVCM), and the weighting coefficient is obtained from the binary mask of the reverse DVCM. Simulations and experiments are conducted to prove the validity of the proposed method. The results are analyzed and compared with those of Perciante's method demonstrating that in addition to maintaining the advantage of sidestepping the phase unwrapping process, the proposed method is available for measuring objects with some types of singularities sources.