Identifying the phase discontinuities in the wrapped phase maps by a classification framework

Ashfaq Ahmad; Yanting Lu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.3.033104

14 March 2016 Identifying the phase discontinuities in the wrapped phase maps by a classification framework

Ashfaq Ahmad, Yanting Lu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 55, Issue 3, 033104 (March 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.3.033104

Abstract

Identifying phase discontinuity locations is a necessary and complex step in the phase unwrapping process, and it becomes more challenging when dealing with noisy wrapped phase maps that are produced through shearography or other speckle-based interferometry methods. Recently, the task of identifying phase discontinuities has been formulated into a two-class classification problem, where the phase discontinuities are identified by a complex neural network trained on plenty of image patches taken from wrapped phase maps. A simple but efficient classification framework is proposed for the phase discontinuities identification task. Six features are first designed to describe the characteristics of discontinuous and continuous pixels. Then, the naive Bayes classifier, working on these features, is employed as the classifier of our framework. Finally, a thinning procedure is performed on the classification results to get the one-pixel-width discontinuity location map which can be used for further phase unwrapping. The experiments on simulated wrapped phase maps are performed to validate the performance of the proposed approach. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can identify phase discontinuities in the wrapped phase maps well and has more robust performances when the signal-to-noise ratios of the phase maps are low.

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Ashfaq Ahmad and Yanting Lu "Identifying the phase discontinuities in the wrapped phase maps by a classification framework," Optical Engineering 55(3), 033104 (14 March 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.3.033104

Published: 14 March 2016

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