On-line phase measuring profilometry based on phase matching

On-line phase measuring profilometry based on phase matching is proposed. While just one fixed sinusoidal fringe is projected on a measured object moving with the pipeline, deformed patterns modulated by the object moving at the same distance moment are captured synchronously by the CCD camera. The phase information of the object in those captured deformed patterns can be predicted using FTP method to assist the pixel matching so as to realize the point-to-point correspondence of the object in the captured deformed patterns. Meanwhile, the equivalent phase-shifting deformed patterns can be extracted. So the three dimensional shape of the object can be reconstructed successfully with an equal phase-shifting algorithm. Numerical simulation and experiments show feasibility and validity of the proposed method.     

Selecting optical patterns with spatial phase modulation

Optical pattern selection by use of spatial phase modulation is investigated experimentally in a photorefractive feedback system. A feedback mirror with spatially periodic phase modulation is used for selection of different spatial patterns. Local phase modulation is used to create patterns with coexisting spatial symmetries. The experimental results are consistent with numerical simulations based on a model with a cubicly nonlinear medium.     

基于SURF算法的在线三维测量方法

提出了一种采用加速鲁棒特征算法匹配运动物体的特征点,实现在线三维测量的方法.该方法只需投影一固定的正弦光栅到在线运动中的被测物体表面上,使投影光栅线垂直运动方向,当物体每移动相同的距离,由CCD采集到相应的变形条纹图,从中提出对应的背景光场,借助SURF算法对各帧背景光场的物体进行特征匹配,即可获得一组具有等步相移量的等效相移条纹图,从而采用等步相移算法可重构出在线运动物体的三维面形.实验验证了该方法的有效性和可行性,并与在线FTP方法进行了比较,所提方法的平均绝对误差小于在线FTP方法的二分之一,均方根误差小于在线FTP方法的四分之一.     

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.     

小波相位解调轮廓术

针对傅里叶变换轮廓术因混频难以准确提取基频的问题,可将小波变换用于三维形貌相位直接解调。对其原理进行了研究,通过编程实现了小波相位解调。取Morlet复小波作为小波母函数,对调制栅线图逐行进行连续小波变换,从各位置的沿尺度方向的小波变换系数幅值的极值中可直接求取对应的相位数据。由于小波函数具有空域_频率两域的局部化特性,因此它对变形栅具有很强的自适应能力。为验证新方法,对其进行了仿真分析,同时还对石膏半球模型和化妆品瓶进行了实际测量,并分别用傅里叶变换和小波变换进行了处理。结果表明,新方法有效地克服了混频的问题,改善了相位解调效果,提高了测量精度,特别适合于复杂物体的形貌测量。     

On-line phase measuring profilometry based on a single frame of deformed pattern

Three frames of deformed patterns are needed at least in conventional Phase Measuring Profilometry (PMP). It is generally applied to the profile measurement of a static object. For on-line measurement, because of the moving object, it is difficult to capture three or more frames of deformed patterns that satisfy the requirement of PMP. A new method of on-line 3-D shape measurement through only one frame deformed pattern in PMP is presented. A static sinusoidal fringe is projected and any one frame of real-time deformed patterns is captured by CCD. N frames of sub-images are extracted from the captured deformed pattern. Improved Stoilov algorithm is proposed to get phase. Computer simulation and experimental results show its feasibility and affectivity to reconstruct a 3-D shape and the accuracy is higher than Fourier Transform Profilemetry (FTP) which is also a method that only needs one frame of deformed pattern.     

A correlation-based phase unwrapping method for Fourier-transform profilometry

A new phase unwrapping algorithm based on correlation map for Fourier-transform profilometry (FTP) method is presented in this paper. It is a quality-guided phase-unwrapping method. The modulation is used as an effective parameter to indicate the reliability of the fringe image for the quality-guided phase-unwrapping method. A filtering window is introduced to calculate the modulation easily. A correlation-map function is proposed to calculate the reliability of the fringe image and to avoid choosing the width of the window in calculating the modulation. As the value of the correlation-map function is lower in areas of the local shadow and abrupt discontinuity than that in other areas, the correlation-map function is used as a guide to find the optimized phase-unwrapping path. The experimental results show that the method is feasible.     

基于螺旋相位调制的非相干全息点扩散函数研究

分析了菲涅耳非相干相关全息(Fresnel incoherent correlation holography,FINCH)系统中纯相位空间光调制器(spatial light modulator,SLM)加载螺旋相位掩模时的点扩散函数.以氙灯为照明光源搭建了FINCH系统,电荷耦合器记录的点源全息图与点扩散函数模拟结果一致.采用该系统分别在SLM上加载双透镜掩模和螺旋相位调制双透镜掩模两种情况下对分辨率板和非染色洋葱细胞成像,给出了成像对比结果.结果表明:采用螺旋相位调制的FINCH系统可以在几乎不牺牲分辨率的情况下提高图像的边缘对比度;同样,对相位物体也可以实现图像的边缘提取和识别.该方法在实时监测活细胞的分裂、形变等方面具有重要应用前景.     

Frequency-multiplexed profilometric phase coding for three-dimensional object recognition without 2pi phase ambiguity: errata

In the title of our previous Letter,(1) the "pi" was incorrectly printed as "mu". The correct title should be "Frequency-multiplexed profilometric phase coding for three-dimensional object recognition without 2pi phase ambiguity" as submitted.     

Correlation dimension based nonlinear analysis of network traffics with different application protocols

This paper uses a correlation dimension based nonlinear analysis approach to analyse the dynamics of network traffics with three different application protocols-HTTP,FTP and SMTP.First,the phase space is reconstructed and the embedding parameters are obtained by the mutual information method.Secondly,the correlation dimensions of three different traffics are calculated and the results of analysis have demonstrated that the dynamics of the three different application protocol traffics is different from each other in nature,i.e.HTTP and FTP traffics are chaotic,furthermore,the former is more complex than the later;on the other hand,SMTP traffic is stochastic.It is shown that correlation dimension approach is an efficient method to understand and to characterize the nonlinear dynamics of HTTP,FTP and SMTP protocol network traffics.This analysis provided insight into and a more accurate understanding of nonlinear dynamics of internet traffics which have a complex mixture of chaotic and stochastic components.     

Printed Chinese character recognition with a real-time optical correlator

A prototype real-time Chinese character recognition processor, which utilizes the Vander Lugt type complex spatial filter is presented. A real-time correlation operation is performed with a photoconductor-liquid crystal device as an incoherent-to-coherent image converter. Bandpass Fourier transform images passing through a bandpass spatial filter are sequentially recorded on a rotating hologram recording plate as stored reference patterns. It makes possible holding the stable discrimination for noisy unknown input patterns and storing a huge number of reference patterns. The typewritten Chinese characters in practice are experimentally discriminated from very similar ones in the real-time optical correlator. This indicates the possibility of more than 2000 printed Chinese character recognition with the optical correlation.     

目标图像长宽比对Vander Lugt相关器特性的影响

分析了使用VLC进行光学相关识别时目标图像长宽比的变化对匹配滤波器畸变容限和输出相关峰值的影响。利用非约束纯相位匹配滤波器算法和迂回相位编码方法设计匹配滤波器,对具有确定面积和透过率而长宽比不同的矩形目标进行光学相关识别。模拟和实验结果表明：随着目标图像长宽比增加,匹配滤波器畸变容限减小,相关峰值降低。VLC更容易识别长宽比趋近1的目标图像。     

Surface profile inspection of a moving object by using dual-frequency Fourier transform profilometry

The 2π phase ambiguity caused by surface isolations and large height step can be solved by dual-frequency projection grating profilometry. However, in the Fourier transform profilometry (FTP) of a moving object, only one single deformed fringe pattern can be obtained. In order to introduce the dual-frequency technique into the FTP of moving object, a novel experimental system is designed to capture two fringe patterns with different frequency at the same time. A grating structure comprising two regions with different frequencies is projected upon the surface of the detected object. Two line-scan CCD cameras are used to capture the surface images encoded by the two kinds of patterns, respectively. By getting the corresponding image intensity at the same point of the object surface in the two acquired images, the dual-frequency technique is applied to extract the real phase without phase ambiguity. The surface profile of a specimen with a large height step is measured to prove the feasibility of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method can solve the 2π phase ambiguity problem successfully in the surface profile inspection of a moving object.     

利用颜色编码辅助计算绝对相位的傅里叶轮廓术

针对传统去卷积算法时间需求的弊端,提出一种新的使用颜色编码辅助的绝对相位并行计算方法。该算法采用对光栅数目需求最少的傅里叶变换轮廓术（FTP）做为卷积相位求取的方法;颜色编码光栅被用来标识轮廓的序数。直接使用FTP计算出的卷积相位以及从彩色光栅中获得的轮廓序数,即可方便求出当前像素的绝对相位值;同时只用一副图像标识轮廓序数也比其他轮廓序数标识方法简单。本方法由于使用绝对相位计算方法,局部相位误差不会扩展。实验结果也证明了此算法对于多个分离物体以及复杂物体的有效性。     

Real-time recognition of microscopic phase objects

A method of image enhancement and real-time input of 3-D, microscopic phase objects into a coherent optical pattern recognition system is described. The method consists of directing a low-power laser beam into a microscope objective to produce a real, magnified, coherent image of the specimen under test. The image plane is followed by two successive Fourier transform (FT) planes. In the first FT plane, low and high frequency spatial filters, one of which is photographically produced, are used as pre-processing filters to enhance the image quality. The enhanced signal is imaged from the first FT plane to the second FT plane which contains a matched spatial filter used for specimen identification. The system does not require an expensive incoherent-to-coherent light transducer and in addition, is capable of utilizing both phase and amplitude information from 3-D objects. Examples of results are given.     

A simple method to unwrap the geometrically discontinuous phase map and its application in the measurement of IC package

Research on the techniques to unwrap the geometrically discontinuous phase map is an active area during the past decade, various algorithm are developed. Basically, these algorithms need a prior knowledge about the spatial extension of the discontinuity area in the sample for correct phase unwrapping, manual mask is often involved and negate the sense of automatic processing to fringe patterns. More ever, current phase unwrapping algorithms are either computationally complex or highly time consuming. In this paper, a refined method is proposed to deal with the geometrical discontinuity problem in an improved automation sense: suppression of background noise and recognition of discontinuity area in the phase map can be finished in the same time, and discontinuous phase map can be unwrapped in a simple way to avoid the effect of discontinuity area. An example of electronic package with complex shape and structure is used to verify the efficiency of this method.     

An improved stair phase encoding method for absolute phase retrieval

An improved phase unwrapping method is proposed to reduce the projection fringes in three-dimensional (3D) surface measurement. Color fringe patterns are generated by encoding with sinusoidal fringe and stair phase fringe patterns in red and blue channels. These color fringe patterns are projected onto the tested objects and then captured by a color CCD camera. The recorded fringe patterns are separated into their RGB components. Two groups of four-step phase-shifting fringe patterns are obtained. One group of the stripes are four sinusoidal patterns, which are used to determine the wrapped phase. The other group of stripes are four sinusoidal patterns with the codeword embedded into stair phase, whose stair changes are perfectly aligned with the 2π discontinuities of sinusoidal fringe phase, which are used to determine the fringe order for the phase unwrapping. The experimental results are analyzed and compared with those of the method in Zheng and Da (2012. Opt Express 20(22):24139–24150). The results show that the proposed method needs only four fringe patterns while having less error. It can effectively reduce the number of projection fringes and improve the measuring speed.     

High-pass filtering and frequency spectrum correlation for larger size image recognition

A new method for larger size images recognition is proposed based on high-pass filtering and frequency spectrum correlation. The input images are first filtered by a high-pass filter. Then the filtered input images, which are overlapped rather than displaced from each other in the input plane, serve as the input images for frequency spectrum correlator. As a result, only one sharp correlation peak yields in the center of output plane when the target image matches with the reference image. More importantly, the method is especially suitable for larger size image recognition because of the input and correlation ways, which ensures better utilization of the space-bandwidth product and efficient utilization of the spatial light modulator and detector. Computer simulation results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this method.     

A digital spatial carrier for wavelet phase extraction

In this paper, we present a new method to digitally add a high-frequency spatial carrier in order to use the wavelet phase extraction algorithm, which leads directly to the phase without the unwrapping process. The method needs a fringe pattern and its π/2 shifted version. The application is performed with two shifted fringe patterns obtained from the phase shifting images of the thermomechanical study of an MOS power transistor. A comparison with the phase shifting results is made.     

Optical pattern recognition by use of a segmented semiconductor optical amplifier

A technique for high-speed, all-optical pattern recognition based on cross correlation in a segmented semiconductor optical amplifier (SSOA) is presented. A counterpropagating pump-probe setup is used to perform cross correlation of the spatial gain-loss pattern in the SSOA with the optical data pattern (pump), and the result is read out with a counterpropagating probe. Cross correlation of 4-bit patterns at 85 Gbits/s is experimentally demonstrated. Simulations show reasonable agreement with experimental measurements and are used to address scalability to higher bit rates and longer data patterns.