Suppressing blooming interference in structured light systems by adaptively reducing camera oversaturated energy

Structured light systems often suffer interference of the fringes by blooming when scanning metal objects. Unfortunately, this problem cannot be reliably solved using conventional methods such as the high dynamic range (HDR) method or adaptive projection technique. Therefore, this study proposes a method to adaptively suppress the oversaturated areas that cause blooming as the exposure time increases and then fuse the multi-exposure time decoding results using a decoding inheritance method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method provides a more effective suppression of blooming interference than existing methods.