In this paper we investigate the suitability of Gabor Wavelets for an adaptive partial reconstruction of holograms based on the viewer position. Matching Pursuit is used for a sparse light rays decomposition of holographic patterns. At the decoding stage, sub-holograms are generated by selecting the diffracted rays corresponding to a specific area of visualization. The use of sub-holograms has been suggested in the literature as an alternative to full compression, by degrading a hologram with respect to the directional degrees of freedom. We present our approach in a complete framework for color digital holograms compression and explain, in details, how it can be efficiently exploited in the context of holographic Head-Mounted Displays. Among other aspects, encoding, adaptive reconstruction and selective degradation are studied.

Date Published: 24 May 2018
PDF: 14 pages
Proc. SPIE 10679, Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications V, 106790L (24 May 2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2315233

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10679:
Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications V
Peter Schelkens; Touradj Ebrahimi; Gabriel Cristóbal, Editor(s)