Author(s)

Yang Shen, Hai-Rong Zheng

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Human face can be rebuilt to a three-dimensional (3 D) digital profile based on an optical 3D sensing system named Composite Fourier-Transform Profilometry (CFTP) where a composite structured light will be used. To study the sampling effect during the digitization process in practical CFTP, the pectinate function and convolution theorem were introduced to discuss the potential phase errors caused by sampling the composite pattern along two orthogonal directions. The selecting criterions of sampling frequencies are derived and the results indicate that to avoid spectral aliasing, the sampling frequency along the phrase variation direction must be at least four times as the baseband and along the orthogonal direction it must be at least three times as the larger frequency of the two carrier frequencies. The practical experiment of a model face reconstruction verified the theories.

Optical 3D Sensing; Composite Structured Light; Sampling; Spectral Aliasing

Shen, Y. and Zheng, H. (2009) Influence of sampling on face measuring system based on composite structured light. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2, 606-611. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2009.28087.