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Compact Lens-less Digital Holographic Microscope for MEMS Inspection and Characterization
Published on: July 5, 2016
HEVC extension for phase hologram compression
Abstract:
Compressing digital holograms have growing attention nowadays due to their huge amount of original data sizes. Although many progresses have been reported for full-complex holograms, the coding performance for phase-only holograms (POHs) has been quite limited so far. In this paper, we present a very efficient compression method for POHs. It extends the conventional video coding standard HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) in such a way that the standard can be able to compress not only the natural images but also the phase images effectively. First, we suggest a proper way to calculate differences, distances and clipped values for phase signals by considering the inherent periodicity of phases. Then, some of the HEVC encoding and decoding processes are modified accordingly. The experimental results show that the proposed extension significantly outperforms the original HEVC for POH video sequences; specifically, average BD-rate reductions of 63.3% and 65.5% are achieved in phase domain and numerical reconstruction domain, respectively. It is worth mentioning that the modified encoding & decoding processes are very minimal and also applicable to the VVC (Versatile Video Coding), which is a successor of the HEVC.
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