Phase Unwrapping Method Based on Windowed Fourier Transform

Abstract

Phase unwrapping is one of the key technologies in electronic speckle pattern interferometry. A new phase unwrapping algorithm, based on windowed Fourier transform is proposed. The high noisy phase map is denoised by the window Fourier transform approach and then is uwrapped by the discrete cosine transform. The method is tested in this paper using a circumferentially fixed circular plate with a point load at the centre and compared with not denoised wrapped phase map and unwrapped phase map. The result shows the new proposed phase unwrapping method in denoising and improving image quality has obvious superiority.