Effective camera calibration by using phase-shifting fringe patterns

The accuracy of conventional target-based camera calibration depends on the detection of feature points. To improve the calibration accuracy in the flat field, this paper proposes an innovative calibration method based on encoded phase-shifting fringe (PSF) patterns. By using arbitrary quadrilateral interpolation, the relationship between a point on the virtual phase plane and the corresponding four original phase points is determined, establishing a mapping between the simplified original phase field and the virtual phase field. This spatial relationship can be used for accurate camera calibration. The proposed research investigates the details of the PSF based camera calibration method and demonstrates its accuracy and effectiveness through experiments. The evaluation of this method includes the checkerboard edge length variance analysis and the linear distance analysis of the checkerboard fit, both of which serve as validation metrics. Camera distortion is described by the phase distribution, and the average phase error after correction is less than 0.001 pixels (px).