This study proposes a method for detecting micro-vibrations along the optical axis of a target object using video image analysis. The proposed method detects vibrations as time variances in the scaling factor of the object by checking the shift in the peaks in the spatial power spectrum of the images. We conducted an experiment wherein a checkerboard placed 2 m below the video camera was vibrated using an actuator. The results show that the proposed method could measure the vibration frequency even when the amplitude is 0.25 permille of the shooting distance.
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