Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study of multi-look approaches for de-noising phase maps from digital holographic interferometry. A database of 160 simulated phase fringe patterns with eight different phase fringe patterns with fringe diversity was computed. For each fringe pattern, 20 realistic noise realizations are generated in order to simulate a multi-look process with 20 inputs. A set of 22 de-noising algorithms was selected and processed for each simulation. Three approaches for multi-look processing are evaluated. Quantitative appraisal is obtained using two metrics. The results show good agreement for algorithm rankings obtained with both metrics. One singular and highly practical result of the study is that a multi-look approach with average looks before noise processing performs better than averaging computed with all de-noised looks. The results also demonstrate that the two-dimensional windowed Fourier transform filtering exhibits the best performance in all cases and that the block-matching 3D (BM3D) algorithm is second in the ranking.

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