Comparing numerical error and visual quality in reconstructions from compressed digital holograms

Taina M. Lehtimäki; Kirsti Sääskilahti; Tomi Pitkäaho; Thomas J. Naughton

doi:10.1117/12.853344

14 May 2010 Comparing numerical error and visual quality in reconstructions from compressed digital holograms

Taina M. Lehtimäki, Kirsti Sääskilahti, Tomi Pitkäaho, Thomas J. Naughton

Proceedings Volume 7690, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 and Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics IV; 769012 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.853344
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Digital holography is a well-known technique for both sensing and displaying real-world three-dimensional objects. Compression of digital holograms has been studied extensively, and the errors introduced by lossy compression are routinely evaluated in a reconstruction domain. Mean-square error predominates in the evaluation of reconstruction quality. However, it is not known how well this metric corresponds to what a viewer would regard as perceived error, nor how consistently it functions across different holograms and different viewers. In this study, we evaluate how each of seventeen viewers compared the visual quality of compressed and uncompressed holograms' reconstructions. Holograms from five different three-dimensional objects were used in the study, captured using a phase-shift digital holography setup. We applied two different lossy compression techniques to the complex-valued hologram pixels: uniform quantization, and removal and quantization of the Fourier coefficients, and used seven different compression levels with each.

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Taina M. Lehtimäki, Kirsti Sääskilahti, Tomi Pitkäaho, and Thomas J. Naughton "Comparing numerical error and visual quality in reconstructions from compressed digital holograms", Proc. SPIE 7690, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 and Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics IV, 769012 (14 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.853344

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