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Title: Synergetic combination of median filtered images to reduce speckle noise in digital holography (DH) and digital holographic microscopy (DHM)
We present a single-shot image processing method to reduce speckle noise mitigating undesired blurring effects in both amplitude and phase reconstructed images. The implementation is based on the average of multiple median filtered images with different kernel size. This approach provides final reconstructed amplitude and phase images with reduced speckle contrast and without penalizing the spatial resolution.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2042563
PAR ID:
10316833
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP)
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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