Non-uniform illumination correction based on multi-scale Retinex in digital image correlation

Digital image correlation (DIC) is an effective optical measurement method. It aims to obtain the displacement field and strain field of the measured object by correlating two digital speckle images before and after deformation. In the actual acquisition of speckle images, due to the large volume of the measured object, the light source cannot cover all areas evenly or has some random change. These issues may easily lead to a non-uniform distribution of light intensity speckle images and reduce the quality of speckle images, which affects the accuracy of DIC measurement to a certain extent. To solve this problem, a non-uniform illumination correction algorithm based on multi-scale Retinex is introduced. First, to analyze the influence of non-uniform illumination on DIC measurement accuracy, the displacement comparison experiment of the numerical simulation speckle images with different non-uniform illumination is conducted. Then, a non-uniform illumination correction algorithm based on multi-scale Retinex is applied to reduce or eliminate the effects of non-uniform illumination by the simulation experiment. Finally, the quantitative measurement of rigid body rotation and uniaxial tensile experiment in plane is studied to verify the feasibility of the correction method for the speckle images. The experimental results show that the measurement accuracy of DIC is improved significantly with the aid of non-uniform illumination variation correction. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America

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DIC is an effective optical measurement method that aims to obtain displacement and strain fields of objects before and after deformation by correlating digital speckle images. Non-uniform illumination during speckle image acquisition may lead to reduced image quality and affect measurement accuracy. Introducing a correction algorithm based on multi-scale Retinex improves measurement accuracy significantly.