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13 August 2024 Generative deep-learning-embedded asynchronous structured light for three-dimensional imaging
Lei Lu, Chenhao Bu, Zhilong Su, Banglei Guan, Qifeng Yu, Wei Pan, Qinghui Zhang
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Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) imaging with structured light is crucial in diverse scenarios, ranging from intelligent manufacturing and medicine to entertainment. However, current structured light methods rely on projector–camera synchronization, limiting the use of affordable imaging devices and their consumer applications. In this work, we introduce an asynchronous structured light imaging approach based on generative deep neural networks to relax the synchronization constraint, accomplishing the challenges of fringe pattern aliasing, without relying on any a priori constraint of the projection system. To overcome this need, we propose a generative deep neural network with U-Net-like encoder–decoder architecture to learn the underlying fringe features directly by exploring the intrinsic prior principles in the fringe pattern aliasing. We train within an adversarial learning framework and supervise the network training via a statistics-informed loss function. We demonstrate that by evaluating the performance on fields of intensity, phase, and 3D reconstruction. It is shown that the trained network can separate aliased fringe patterns for producing comparable results with the synchronous one: the absolute error is no greater than 8 μm, and the standard deviation does not exceed 3 μm. Evaluation results on multiple objects and pattern types show it could be generalized for any asynchronous structured light scene.

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Lei Lu, Chenhao Bu, Zhilong Su, Banglei Guan, Qifeng Yu, Wei Pan, and Qinghui Zhang "Generative deep-learning-embedded asynchronous structured light for three-dimensional imaging," Advanced Photonics 6(4), 046004 (13 August 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.6.4.046004
Received: 19 January 2024; Accepted: 22 July 2024; Published: 13 August 2024
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KEYWORDS
Fringe analysis

Education and training

Cameras

Aliasing

Structured light

Projection systems

3D image processing

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