Windowed phase unwrapping using a first-order dynamic system following iso-phase contours

In this work, we show a windowed phase-unwrapping technique that uses a first-order dynamic system and scans the phase following its iso-phase contours. In previous works, we have shown that low-pass first-order dynamic systems are very robust and useful in phase-unwrapping problems. However, it is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Quiroga Mellado, Juan Antonio, Estrada, Julio C., Vargas Balbuena, Javier, Flores Moreno, Mauricio J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/43903
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43903
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Fringe-Pattern Analysis
Interferometry
Algorithms
Maps
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:In this work, we show a windowed phase-unwrapping technique that uses a first-order dynamic system and scans the phase following its iso-phase contours. In previous works, we have shown that low-pass first-order dynamic systems are very robust and useful in phase-unwrapping problems. However, it is well known that all phase-unwrapping methods have a minimum signal-to-noise ratio that they tolerate. This paper shows that scanning the phase within local windows and using a path following strategy, the first-order unwrapping method increases its tolerance to noise. In this way, using the improved approach, we can unwrap phase maps where the basic dynamic phase-unwrapping system fails. Tests and results are given, as well as the source code in order to show the performance of the proposed method.