Affiliations: Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory, The
University of Tokyo, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1188, Japan. e-mail:
[email protected]
Abstract: The frequency responses on sub-pixel evaluation techniques have been
investigated using the Monte-Carlo technique. The frequency response by the FFT
based cross-correlation gives very good results although some gain loss does
exist for small displacement (less than 0.5 pixel). Few gain losses are
observed in the Direct Cross-Correlation, but the sub-pixel accuracy is limited
to be about 0.1 pixel which implies that it could not detect a small
displacement. To detect sub-pixel displacement with higher accuracy, the
gradient technique with iterative correlation is the best. For a small
interrogation area (e.g., 4 × 4), only the gradient technique can detect
small displacement accurately.