The moiré effect has been used in high-accuracy positioning and alignment systems for decades. Various methods have been proposed to identify and locate moiré fringes in order to relate the pattern information to dimensional and displacement measurement. These methods can be broadly categorized into manual interpretation based on human knowledge and image processing based on computational algorithms. An artificial neural network (ANN) is proposed to locate moiré fringe centers within circular grating moiré patterns. This ANN approach aims to mimic human decision making by eliminating complex mathematical computations or time-consuming image processing algorithms in moiré fringe recognition. A feed-forward backpropagation ANN architecture was adopted in this work. Parametric studies were performed to optimize the ANN architecture. The finalized ANN approach was able to determine the location of the fringe centers with average deviations of 3.167 pixels out of 200 pixels (≈1.6%) and 6.166 pixels out of 200 pixels (≈3.1%) for real moiré patterns that lie within and outside the training intervals, respectively. In addition, a reduction of 43.4% in the computational time was reported using the ANN approach. Finally, the applicability of the ANN approach for moiré fringe center determination was confirmed.
Moiré methods are commonly used in various engineering metrological practices such as deformation measurements and surface topography. In the past, most of the applications required human intervention in fringe pattern analysis and image processing development to analyze the moiré patterns. In a recent application of using circular gratings moiré pattern, researchers developed graphical analysis method to determine the in-plane (2-D) displacement change between the two circular gratings by analyzing the moiré pattern change. In this work, an artificial neural network approach was proposed to detect and locate moiré fringe centers of circular gratings without image preprocessing and curve fitting. The intensity values in columns of the transformed circular moiré pattern were extracted as the input to the neural network. Moiré fringe centers extracted using graphical analysis method were used as the target for the neural network training. The neural network produced reasonably accurate output with an average mean error of an average mean error of less than 1 unit pixel with standard deviation of less than 4 unit pixels in determining the location of the moiré fringe centers. The result showed that the neural network approach is applicable in moiré fringe centers determination and its feasibility in automating moiré pattern analysis with further improvement.
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