“…Specifically, the digital cameras are used to track and record a series of speckle images of the specimen surface during deformation, then the image correlation matching algorithms [Lei, Hou and Gong (2012); Chu, Ranson and Sutton (1985); Caggegi, Chevalier, Pensée et al (2016)] applied to pixel points in the digital images are adopted to determine the full-field displacement. As a full-field and non-contact measurement technique, DIC has gained great popularities in applications of various materials, such as metals [Cai, Zhang, Yang et al (2016); Tung, Shih and Kuo (2010); Pan, Yu and Wu (2015)], concrete [Jiang, Jin, Zhao et al (2017); Lei, Yang, Xu et al (2017)], polymers [Grytten, Daiyan, Polanco-Loria et al (2009) ;Jerabek, Major and Lang (2010)] and biomaterials [Murienne, Chen, Quigley et al (2016)]. As it is known, most DIC methods are based on the optical flow theory, whose accuracy is depended on the smoothness of displacement.…”