关于数字图像相关中曲面拟合法的几点讨论

曲面拟合法求解亚像素位移是数字图像相关亚像素位移定位中的一种重要方法,它具有抗噪声能力较强、精度高、计算效率高等优点,在实际应用中多被采用.本文就该算法中影响亚像素位移定位精度的各要素进行了详细讨论,并用计算机生成的模拟散斑图和金属试件的刚体平移实验进行了验证,结果表明,整像素搜索时选取不同的计算窗口对计算结果的影响最大,而文中所列的几种相关函数的选取对计算结果的影响则可以忽略.     

数字图像相关分析法增量位移场测试技术

利用位移场的连续性,对亚像素位移场的算法进行了一些改进,设计了一套分步计算位移场、应变场的测量计算方法,较好地解决了数字图像相关分析法计算精度和效率.采用增量位移场叠加的方法计算大应变位移场,采用局部平面拟合的方法计算应变场.通过对高分子材料拉伸试验位移场的测量和结果标定,说明该方法具有较强的实用性和计算精度.同时,由于避免了对亚像素点的搜索,大大提高了计算效率.     

基于拟合求解数字图像相关亚像素位移算法

数字图像相关方法是一种非接触式的变形场测量方法。虽然目前该算法能取得较高的计算精度,但是通常存在计算量较大、计算时间较长的问题。为了提高算法的计算效率,本文提出了一种基于移动最小二乘算法拟合整像素位移求解亚像素位移的数字图像相关方法。因为采用移动最小二乘算法有效利用了局部特征,所以可以采用相对简单的多项式拟合求解复杂的周期型余弦变形,同时计算结果具有较高的精度。计算结果的平均误差为0.0238pixel,标准误差为0.0791pixel,与常用的空间相关亚像素位移计算结果精度相当。实验结果验证了本文算法的正确性和有效性。通过与等计算精度的NR算法对比分析,结果表明本文算法在亚像素位移计算阶段具有更高的计算效率。计算效率至少提升了58.1倍,最多提升了437.8倍。     

数字图像相关中的亚像素位移定位算法进展

数字图像相关方法 (DIC) 已经作为一种常用的光学计量有效手段应用于实验力学及其它科学研究和工程应用领域中. 经过 20 多年的发展, 该方法日渐成熟和完善. 作为提高测量精度的亚像素位移定位算法被认为是该方法的关键技术之一. 本文对二维数字图像相关的基本原理及其中为提高测量精度而提出的各种亚像素位移定位算法做了概括性的介绍. 在总结已有研究成果的基础上, 分析了各种方法优缺点. 并对数字图像相关方法的最新进展作了简要介绍, 随着算法精度、效率以及硬件设备性能的提高, 该方法必将会获得更广泛的应用.      

数字图像相关曲面拟合法相关系数修正算法的实验研究

为了提高数字图像相关曲面拟合法亚像素定位精度,经研究发现,在实际应用中,曲面拟合法在亚像素位移为0.5像素左右时会发生较大的波动,与实际亚像素位移发生一定偏离,导致此位置位移的不连续。本文通过分析曲面拟合法亚像素位移偏离真实位移的原因,给出了具体修正方法,用模拟平移实验讨论了修正系数k和子区大小对修正结果的影响,用三点弯曲实验验证了修正方法在复杂变形情况下的有效性,提高了曲面拟合法在实际应用中的测量精度。     

散斑图像相关数字技术原理及应用

研究图像处理技术在散斑测量中的应用，提出了一种散斑图像相关数字技术，该方法引进了亚像素技术，采用重心算法计算特征斑的重心，避免了数字散斑相关法计算相关系数的繁复过程；应用位移和应变的有关公式，可以获得物体变形实验曲线，实验结果表明，该方法在工程实际现场、振动过程以及变形测量的自动化等方面有着广泛的应用潜力，从而为光测力学拓展应用领域、实现自动化测量展现了新的前景。     

数字散斑相关测量中亚像素位移测量方法的比较

本文介绍了数字散斑相关测量中确定亚像素位移的几种方法，包括对相关系数的插值、拟合以及基于图像梯度的两种方法，文中详细比较了这几种方法，并以计算结果的相对误差为依据，给出了这几种方法在应用中的参考选择标准。     

一种考虑旋转位移分量的数字图像相关法及其精度分析

提出了一种新的考虑旋转位移分量的数字图像相关法[CD2]旋转相关匹配法,其特点是先对图像子区进行预旋转,再进行相关匹配、相关系数、整像素和亚像素位移的计算。在物体产生旋转位移分量时,该方法可有效提高变形前后图像子区间的相关系数和位移计算精度。通过斜拉伸、剪切和悬臂梁弯曲实验,对旋转相关匹配法和直接相关匹配法进行了对比研究,并用灰度梯度法计算旋转后新图像子区和变形后图像子区间的亚像素位移。结果表明,在旋转位移分量小于10°的情况下,相比于直接相关匹配法,旋转相关匹配法可以得到更高的相关系数;在用灰度梯度法计算亚像素位移条件下,位移精度与试件位移不产生旋转时的直接相关匹配相当。     

基于单像素成像的微小位移测量方法

激光散斑位移测量法是一种重要的现代光学位移测量方法,由于受到图像传感器元件感光性能限制,难以在强干扰光条件下获得有效散斑场信息,进而无法获取位移场数据,因此,基于单像素成像技术,本文提出一种新的激光散斑位移测量方法:对散斑信息进行图案编码调制,并使用单像素探测器采集调制后的光强信息;利用Walsh-Hadamard Transformation(WHT)成像算法对散斑场图像进行重建;最后结合自相关算法确定物体的位移场信息。分别利用商业相机和单像素成像技术对散射介质的单轴微小位移进行测量,结果表明基于单像素成像技术的激光散斑位移测量技术可以获得较好的测量结果。相比于传统测量方法,基于单像素成像技术的激光散斑位移测量方法在复杂环境中具有一定的优势,可实现强光干扰下的位移场测量。     

基于退相关DIC的疲劳裂纹全局动态测量方法

工程材料和结构在反复荷载长期作用下容易发生疲劳开裂, 疲劳裂纹测量对于开展科学试验研究和工程问题分析都至关重要, 但现有方法无法实现高精度的疲劳裂纹全局动态测量. 本文基于数字图像相关(digital image correlation, DIC)技术, 合理利用DIC的退相关效应, 提出一种疲劳裂纹全局动态测量及可视化方法. 该方法首先在相机采集得到的裂纹图像内, 建立具备拓扑关系的目标点云结构, 并运用DIC亚像素算法得到裂纹区域位移场, 再基于零均值归一化互相关(zero-mean normalized cross correlation, ZNCC)计算结果剔除退相关的DIC目标点(灭点). 进一步通过“三生点”算法提取得到裂纹离散边界, 并采用最小二乘法将离散边界拟合为连续裂纹边界, 实现裂纹形态的几何重构, 最终自动计算得到裂纹长度和宽度的动态变化过程. 该方法原理清晰、理论简单, 易于实现. 开展数值模拟和钢节点疲劳试验, 对相关算法和图像采集参数进行了验证, 结果表明本文方法对疲劳裂纹边界的数字化重构误差在0.5个像素内, 基于重构结果计算得到的裂纹长度和宽度误差分别为0.46像素和0.08像素(类同于0.06 mm和0.01 mm), 并成功实现了对疲劳试验裂纹扩展形态的精细化动态测量及可视化. 研究成果证明了DIC技术用于疲劳裂纹全局动态测量及可视化的有效性, 并在测量精度、效率、成本等方面具有显著优势, 可在实验室测量和工程现场测试中推广应用.      

Fast, Robust and Accurate Digital Image Correlation Calculation Without Redundant Computations

High-efficiency and high-accuracy deformation analysis using digital image correlation (DIC) has become increasingly important in recent years, considering the ongoing trend of using higher resolution digital cameras and common requirement of processing a large sequence of images recorded in a dynamic testing. In this work, to eliminate the redundant computations involved in conventional DIC method using forward additive matching strategy and classic Newton–Raphson (FA-NR) algorithm without sacrificing its sub-pixel registration accuracy, we proposed an equivalent but more efficient DIC method by combining inverse compositional matching strategy and Gauss-Newton (IC-GN) algorithm for fast, robust and accurate full-field displacement measurement. To this purpose, first, an efficient IC-GN algorithm, without the need of re-evaluating and inverting Hessian matrix in each iteration, is introduced to optimize the robust zero-mean normalized sum of squared difference (ZNSSD) criterion to determine the desired deformation parameters of each interrogated subset. Then, an improved reliability-guided displacement tracking strategy is employed to achieve further speed advantage by automatically providing accurate and complete initial guess of deformation for the IC-GN algorithm implemented on each calculation point. Finally, an easy-to-implement interpolation coefficient look-up table approach is employed to avoid the repeated calculation of bicubic interpolation at sub-pixel locations. With the above improvements, redundant calculations involved in various procedures (i.e. initial guess of deformation, sub-pixel displacement registration and sub-pixel intensity interpolation) of conventional DIC method are entirely eliminated. The registration accuracy and computational efficiency of the proposed DIC method are carefully tested using numerical experiments and real experimental images. Experimental results verify that the proposed DIC method using IC-GN algorithm and the existing DIC method using classic FA-NR algorithm generate similar results, but the former is about three to five times faster. The proposed reliability-guided IC-GN algorithm is expected to be a new standard full-field displacement tracking algorithm in DIC.     

Accuracy of correlation-based image registration for pressure-sensitive paint

The accuracy of correlation-based image registration (CBIR) in the analysis of pressure-sensitive paints (PSP) was investigated. CBIR has been developed to perform accurate image registration without the need for control points, even for model motions containing nonlinear local deformations. In the present study, the influence of displacement errors and their sensitivity on the accuracy of pressure measurement was examined by uncertainty analysis. The error sources in image registration were classified and several factors affecting the accuracy of image registration were examined. The performances of image registration were evaluated under several artificial model motions. Local intensity variations due to speckles, which enhance the image correlation in CBIR, may act as a source of image noise. The local pressure sensitivity in the presence and absence of speckles was investigated through pixel-by-pixel calibration. A spatial filtering was employed to reduce the local intensity variations. It was found that application of a median filter decreased the fluctuations in the local pressure sensitivity and significantly reduced the sensitivity of the intensity error to misregistration.     

基于数字图像体相关的物体内部三维位移场分析

在二维数字图像相关算法的基础上,推导了三维数字图像体相关算法,并应用于物体内部的三维位移场分析。用计算机模拟方法对SR-CT重建的物体内部三维图像施加已知变形,对变形前后三维数字图像进行体相关运算,获得三维位移场。在计算亚像素位移时,本文提出了一种三维的基于灰度梯度的算法,给出了梯度函数,阐述了数字模拟三维体相关的计算过程,通过数字模拟实验证明了算法的正确性和可靠性。     

On the Propagation of Camera Sensor Noise to Displacement Maps Obtained by DIC - an Experimental Study

This paper focuses on one of the metrological properties of DIC, namely displacement resolution. More specifically, the study aims to validate, in the environment of an experimental mechanics laboratory, a recent generalized theoretical prediction of displacement resolution. Indeed, usual predictive formulas available in the literature neither take into account sub-pixel displacement, nor have been validated in an experimental mechanics laboratory environment, nor are applicable to all types of DIC (Global as well as Local). Here, the formula used to account for sub-pixel displacements is first recalled, and an accurate model of the sensor noise is introduced. The hypotheses required for the elaboration of this prediction are clearly stated. The formula is then validated using experimental data. Since rigid body motion between the specimen and the camera impairs the experimental data, and since sensor noise is signal-dependent, particular tools need to be introduced in order to ensure the consistency between the observed image noise and the model on which prediction hypotheses are based. Pre-processing tools introduced for another full-field measurement approach, namely the Grid Method, are employed to address these issues.     

Planar fluorescence for round bubble imaging and its application for the study of an axisymmetric two-phase jet

A correlation-based processing algorithm for bubble identification by a planar fluorescence for bubble imaging (PFBI) technique is presented in this paper. The algorithm includes procedures to identify bubble positions and sizes, as well as to track bubbles and correct bubble displacement vectors. Moreover, several schemes for calculation time optimisation were realised to achieve a reliable calculation time. The developed algorithm identifies and tracks overlapping bubble images or images with non-uniform intensity distributions. The employed correlation and iterative passing approach provides sub-pixel accuracy of bubble displacement estimation. In addition, the presented algorithm for bubble ring detection can be easily applied to shadow photography images of bubbles, after the application of a derivative filter. The PFBI technique, combined with the particle image velocimetry and particle tracking velocimetry algorithms, was applied for the experimental study of bubbly free jet two-phase flows at Re = 12,000. Four cases of volumetric gas content in the jet core were studied: 0, 1.2, 2.4 and 4.2%, with the same mean bubble diameter—0.85 mm. The developed technique measures two-dimensional distributions of instantaneous void fractions, as well as both gaseous and liquid-phase velocities. Consequently, the mean void fraction and velocity fields and a set of second-order statistical moments were obtained, including correlations of void fraction and velocity pulsations. It was shown that the increase in volumetric gas content leads to the suppression of liquid-phase velocity fluctuations in the jet mixing layer.     

Digital Image Correlation Using Stochastic Parallel-Gradient-Descent Algorithm

This article proposes a digital image correlation (DIC) method based on the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm. Stochastic parallel perturbations are imposed on deformation parameters to make the correlation coefficients converge to a global extremum; thus, this allows the final measured values of the deformation parameters to be obtained and the DIC measurement to be made. Both simulated and real data processing, including rigid body and strain deformation, show that the proposed method can achieve nearly the same accuracy as the Newton–Raphson (NR) method in most cases and higher accuracy in some cases, such as the simulated experiments of rigid body translation with and without noise. It also has a good noise-robustness. Furthermore, a series of experiments have been designed to evaluate the convergence characteristics of the proposed method, and it has been proved able to process large displacement and have a stable convergence process, good robustness, and a high convergence speed when bilinear interpolation is adopted.     

Digital Image Correlation with Self-Adaptive Gaussian Windows

A novel subpixel registration algorithm with Gaussian windows is put forward for accurate deformation measurement in digital image correlation technique. Based on speckle image quality and potential deformation states, this algorithm can automatically minimize the influence of subset sizes by self-adaptively tuning the Gaussian window shapes with the aid of a so-called weighted sum-of-squared difference correlation criterion. Numerical results of synthetic speckle images undergoing in-plane sinusoidal displacement fields demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve displacement and strain measurement accuracy especially in the case with relatively large deformation.