High-speed 3D profilometry employing HSI color model for color surface with discontinuities

Structured-light projection methods are facing two remaining challenges. One is a high-speed optical metrology on objects with chromatic surfaces and the other one is avoiding phase errors caused by height steps or spatially isolated surfaces. To overcome them, this paper provides an effective profilometry with a single-shot image by employing the HSI color model to compose the colorful pattern. Three sinusoidal fringes with different phase steps are encoded in RGB channels respectively. The hue component of a deformed pattern is applied to reconstruct the 3D shape of an object. The saturation and the intensity are utilized to correct the hue demodulation. Besides, an effective color calibration procedure is developed to compensate the hue error. Experimental results verify the feasibility of the developed method.