Lehtimäki, Taina M. and Sääskilahti, Kirsti and Pitkäaho, Tomi and Naughton, Thomas J. (2010) Comparing numerical error and visual quality in reconstructions from compressed digital holograms. SPIE Proceedings, 7690 (769012).

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Image compression; perceived quality; noise, digital holography; three-dimensional imaging;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	2344
Depositing User:	Thomas Naughton
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2011 10:58
Journal or Publication Title:	SPIE Proceedings
Publisher:	SPIE
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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