Valid point detection in fringe projection profilometry.

Abstract

Fringe projection profilometry has become one of the most popular 3D information acquisition techniques being developed over the past three decades. However, the general and practical issues on valid point detection, including object segmentation, error correction and noisy point removal, have not been studied thoroughly. Furthermore, existing valid point detection techniques require multiple case-dependent thresholds which increase processing inconvenience. In this paper, we proposed a new valid point detection framework, which includes the k-means clustering for automatic background segmentation, unwrapping error correction based on theoretical analysis, and noisy point detection in both temporal and spatial directions with automatic threshold setting. Experimental results are given to validate the proposed framework.