Estimation of dynamically varying displacement derivatives using fringe projection technique.

This paper presents a pseudo Wigner-Ville-distribution-based method in fringe projection for analyzing temporal behavior of the displacement derivative for a continuously deformed object. In the proposed method, a computer generated fringe pattern is projected on an object undergoing dynamic deformation, and the reflected intensity is recorded in the form of video, i.e., a stack of images are captured sequentially by a CCD camera. Each image represents a recorded fringe pattern at a particular time instant whose phase contains information about the instantaneous out-of-plane displacement or deformation with respect to the undeformed object, and the corresponding spatial phase derivative relates to the displacement derivative. Subsequently, pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution is used for instantaneous phase derivative estimation from the stack of images. Simulation and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the method's potential.