Dynamic three-dimensional shape measurement with a complementary phase-coding method

Abstract The traditional phase-coding (TPC) method has been widely used for three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement. However, the fringe order determined from the coding patterns cannot be precisely aligned with the wrapped phase calculated from the sinusoidal patterns when measuring dynamic objects. Consequently, phase unwrapping errors will occur around the 2π phase jumps of the wrapped phase. To address this problem, the present work proposes a complementary phase-coding (CPC) method for dynamic 3D shape measurement. Specifically, the projection of the sinusoidal and coding patterns forms a cycle and the se patterns are shifted by a half-period between even and odd cycles. Combining two fringe orders of adjacent even and odd cycles, the absolute phase map can be correctly recovered. Moreover, to improve the measurement speed, all 8-bit gray patterns are converted into 1-bit binary patterns by a binary dithering technique. Both simulations and experiments demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed method.