Deep learning-based temporal phase unwrapping method for fringe projection profilometry

Abstract

The invention discloses a deep learning-based temporal phase unwrapping method for fringe projection profilometry. First, four sets of three-step phase-shifting fringe patterns with different frequencies (including 1, 8, 32, and 64) are projected to the tested objects. The three-step phase-shifting fringe images acquired by the camera are processed to obtain the wrapped phase map using a three-step phase-shifting algorithm. Then, a multi-frequency temporal phase unwrapping (MF-TPU) algorithm is used to unwrap the wrapped phase map to obtain a fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. A residual convolutional neural network is built, and its input data are set to be the wrapped phase maps with frequencies of 1 and 64, and the output data are set to be the fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. Finally, the training dataset and the validation dataset are built to train and validate the network. The network makes predictions on the test dataset to output the fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. The invention exploits a deep learning method to unwrap a wrapped phase map with a frequency of 64 using a wrapped phase map with a frequency of 1 and obtain an absolute phase map with fewer phase errors and higher accuracy.