Extreme detectable vibration frequency limited by rolling shutter camera imaging of laser speckles

Abstract

The row scanning mechanism of a rolling shutter camera can be used to infer high-frequency information from a low-frame-rate video. Combining the high intensity of laser speckle and high row-sampling rate of a rolling shutter, extreme detectable vibration frequency limited by rolling shutter camera imaging is experimentally demonstrated. Using a commercially available industrial camera at a frame rate of 70 fps, a vibration signal with a frequency of 14.285 kHz is extracted that corresponds to an inter-row sampling period of 35 µs and a sampling frequency of 28.57 kHz. Connected component and centroid alignment algorithms are used to extract the inter-row vibration displacement. The parameters that limit the highest and lowest detectable frequencies are discussed.