RT Journal Article T1 Incremental PCA algorithm for fringe pattern demodulation A1 Gómez Pedrero, José Antonio A1 Estrada, Julio César A1 Alonso Fernández, José A1 Quiroga Mellado, Juan Antonio A1 Vargas Balbuena, Javier AB This work proposes a new algorithm for demodulating fringe patterns using principal component analysis (PCA). The algorithm is based on the incremental implantation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) technique for computing the principal values associated with a set of fringe patterns. Instead of processing an entire set of interferograms, the proposed algorithm proceeds in an incremental way, processing sequentially one (as minimum) interferogram at a given time. The advantages of this procedure are twofold. Firstly, it is not necessary to store the whole set of images in memory, and, secondly, by computing a phase quality parameter, it is possible to determine the minimum number of images necessary to accurately demodulate a given set of interferograms. The proposed algorithm has been tested for synthetic and experimental in ter ferograms showing a good performance. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement PB The Optical Society Of America SN 1094-4087 YR 2022 FD 2022-04-11 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71418 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71418 LA eng NO © 2022 Optica Publishing Group.Funding. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2019-108850RA-I00). NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) DS Docta Complutense RD 15 abr 2025