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By simply adjusting the upsampling factor, better subpixel resolution can be easily achieved to improve the measurement accuracy. The performance of the vision sensor is first evaluated through a laboratory shaking table test of a frame structure, in which the displacements at all the floors are measured by using one camera to track either  high-contrast artificial targets or low-contrast natural targets on the structural surface such as bolts and nuts. Satisfactory agreements are observed between the displacements measured by the single camera and those measured by high-performance laser displacement sensors. Then field tests are carried out on a railway bridge and a pedestrian bridge, through which the accuracy of the vision sensor in both time and frequency domains is further confirmed in realistic field environments. Significant advantages of the noncontact vision sensor include its low cost, ease of operation, and flexibility to extract structural displacement at any point from a single measurement.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s150716557","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,10]],"date-time":"2015-07-10T02:02:23Z","timestamp":1436493743000},"page":"16557-16575","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":408,"title":["A Vision-Based Sensor for Noncontact Structural  Displacement Measurement"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6942-984X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongming","family":"Feng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York,  NY 10027, USA"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York,  NY 10027, USA"}]},{"given":"Ekin","family":"Ozer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York,  NY 10027, USA"}]},{"given":"Yoshio","family":"Fukuda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York,  NY 10027, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"918","DOI":"10.1002\/stc.360","article-title":"Cost-Effective vision-based system for monitoring dynamic response of civil engineering structures","volume":"17","author":"Fukuda","year":"2010","journal-title":"Struct. 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