Abstract

The sensitivity of incoherent optical methods using video cameras (e.g., optical flow and digital image correlation) for full-field displacement measurements, defined by the minimum measurable displacements, is essentially limited by the finite bit depth of the digital camera due to the quantization with round-off error. Quantitatively, the theoretical sensitivity limit is determined by the bit depth B as δp = 1/(2^B − 1) [pixel] which corresponds to a displacement causing an intensity change of one gray level. Fortunately, the random noise in the imaging system may be leveraged to perform a natural dithering to overcome the quantization, rendering the possibility of breaking the sensitivity limit. In this work we study such a theoretical sensitivity limit and present a spatiotemporal pixel-averaging method with dithering to achieve super-sensitivity. The numerical simulation results indicate that super-sensitivity can be achieved and is quantitatively determined by the total pixel number N for averaging and the noise level σ_n as $\delta p^{*} \propto (\sigma _{n}/\sqrt {N})\delta p$.

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