Dynamic three-dimensional sensing for specular surface with monoscopic fringe reflectometry.

Dynamic full-field three-dimensional sensing of specular reflective surfaces can be conveniently implemented with fringe reflection technique. A monoscopic fringe reflectometric system can be adopted as a simple measuring setup. With the assistance of the windowed Fourier ridges method as an advanced fringe demodulation technique, only one cross grating is needed to reconstruct the three-dimensional surface shape changes. A suitable calibration enables determination of the actual three-dimensional surface profile. Experimental results of water wave variations are shown to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.