Deformation-phase measurement by optical flow method

A novel algorithm which extract the out-of-plane component of deformation-phase from two continuous fringe patterns is proposed. The whole-field out-of-plane component of deformation-phase map is obtained by the estimations of the optical flow velocity field between two images and the local frequency of the original image. In this paper, the proposed algorithm is introduced and applied to simulated and experimental interferograms. Simulation and experimental results show that the new method can demodulate the out-of-plane component of deformation-phase from the visible optical flow velocity field without the operation of phase unwrapping. Further, the proposed algorithm provides a new approach for whole-field deformation-phase measurement and dynamic deformation measurement.