Quasi-Noise-Free and Detail-Preserved Digital Holographic Reconstruction

Abstract

The shortcoming of the coherence of digital holographic light sources leads to the generation of holographic reconstruction speckle noise, which seriously affects the quality of holographic reconstruction. Although many advanced algorithms for reducing speckle noise in digital holography (DH) have achieved good results, in the process of processing image speckle noise, the details of the image are blurred, and the information relating to the image texture is lost. Therefore, we propose a new algorithm, which combines automatic GrabCut and guided filtering to solve the problem of blurred image details in filtering reconstruction. The new algorithm is applied to the problem of holographic speckle removal for the first time. In this paper, the new algorithm not only achieves quasi-noise-free (approximate the noise-free state) DH reconstruction but also realizes the retention of details in the image. The quality of the resulting holographic reconstruction is comparable to that achieved by incoherent technology, which exceeds the current level of DH and produces a good visual effect.

Keywords

• Holography
• guided filtering
• automatic GrabCut
• noise