Determination of edge correspondence using color codes for one-shot shape acquisition

A robust method for measuring 3D shapes is proposed, in which only one stripe pattern image is required. To determine edge correspondence, we match color codes instead of edge codes because the former are more stable and immune to the standard deviation of the Gaussian filter in edge detection and width of the color band. The color code is identified by K-means. This method exhibits huge advantages in adaptability and automation over thresholding techniques. The proposed decoding method is compared with two well-known algorithms, dynamic programming and multi-pass dynamic programming. Using ground truth, we evaluate the performance of the methods in measuring three different objects. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons are shown in the experiments, and results affirm that our method is effective and robust.