State-space modeling approach for fringe pattern demodulation

Abstract

A spatial carrier fringe demodulation technique is proposed based on a state-space modeling approach for phase estimation. The fringe background intensity, carrier frequency, and phase quadrature components are considered to be the elements of the state vector, which are estimated simultaneously. The state estimation is performed using the extended Kalman filter. The simulation and experimental results are provided to demonstrate the performance comparison of the proposed method with popular and state-of-the-art methods in terms of noise robustness and phase estimation accuracy.