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Gradient-Based Automatic Exposure Control for Digital Image Correlation

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  • Jiangping Chen

    (School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangzhou City Construction College, Guangzhou 510925, China)

  • Weijun Tao

    (Key Laboratory of Earthquake Resistance, Earthquake Mitigation and Structural Safety, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510405, China
    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Applied Technology, Guangzhou 510405, China)

Abstract

Digital image correlation (DIC) is widely used in material experiments such as ores; the quality of a speckle image directly affects the accuracy of the DIC calculation. This study aims to acquire high-quality speckle pattern images and improve the calculation accuracy and stability. A gradient-based image quality metric was selected to evaluate the image quality, and its validity was verified by a rigid body experiment and a numerical experiment. Based on the maximum image quality metric, an automatic exposure control algorithm and the control procedure were proposed to obtain the optimal exposure time. Finally, nine sets of images with different poses and illuminations were captured, and displacement and strain fields were calculated at the fixed exposure time and the optimized exposure time. The results of the rigid-body motion experiment show that the calculated data at the optimized exposure time is smoother and less noisy, and the error is smaller, which verifies the effectiveness of the exposure control procedure and its algorithm and improves the accuracy and stability of DIC calculation.

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  • Jiangping Chen & Weijun Tao, 2023. "Gradient-Based Automatic Exposure Control for Digital Image Correlation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:2:p:1149-:d:1028385
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