Improved Fourier Transform Profilometry Based on Color Pattern Projection

In this paper a novel 3D shape measurement technique based on color fringe projection is proposed to solve the spectrum aliasing and phase unwrapping issues existed in Fourier transform profilometry. Set the RG components of the color fringe to two different frequencies of sinusoidal pattern and the B component to the average value of R or G component. Then project the pattern to the object. Separate these RGB components of the captured color pattern and use our method to process these three gray patterns. By using the proposed method, the background and high frequency noises can be eliminated during FTP process, also the accurate unwrapped phase which contains the height information can be got by using two frequencies of wrapped phase to unwrap the phase. Only one frame color pattern is needed to get the 3D information of an object. Experiment results show that the 3D information of an object can be obtained rapidly and accurately using the proposed method. And also the object can be measured dynamically.