This research investigates the usage of deep neural networks (DNNs) to optimize encoding masks that, when combined with digital imaging systems, can recover high spatial frequency content that would otherwise be filtered out by the OTF. It has been shown that Fourier ptychographic photography (FPP) can recover high resolution imagery by imaging scenes that have been illuminated by a controlled light source. Instead of a controlled light source, this research utilizes light encoding masks that are optimized by a DNN to allow for decreased blur and increased resolution of recovered imagery. A masks generator is optimized in a generative adversarial network (GAN) where generated masks are used to recover imagery through a FPP phase recovery algorithm. The masks and recovery algorithm are optimized according to a loss function comparing the recovered imagery to the pristine, undegraded imagery as dictated by a Wasserstein critic, a DNN model. This method creates masks optimal for recovering high frequency spatial information of specific imaged object types based on the training dataset used.
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