Measuring the impact of compression on the reconstruction quality of holograms remains a challenge. A public subjectively-annotated holographic data set that allows for testing the performance of compression techniques and quality metrics is presented, in addition to a subjective visual quality assessment methodology. Moreover, the performance of the quality assessment procedures is compared for holographic, regular 2D and light field displays. For these experiments, a double-stimulus, multi-perspective, multi-depth testing methodology was designed and implemented. Analysis of the quality scores indicated that in the absence of a suitable holographic display and under the presented test conditions, non-holographic displays can be deployed to display numerically reconstructed holograms for visual quality assessment tasks.
Ahar, A, Chlipala, M, Birnbaum, T, Zaperty, W, Symeonidou, A, Kozacki, T, Kujawinska, M & Schelkens, P 2020, 'Suitability analysis of holographic vs light field and 2D displays for subjective quality assessment of Fourier holograms', Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 24, 24, pp. 37069-37091. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.405984
Ahar, A., Chlipala, M., Birnbaum, T., Zaperty, W., Symeonidou, A., Kozacki, T., Kujawinska, M., & Schelkens, P. (2020). Suitability analysis of holographic vs light field and 2D displays for subjective quality assessment of Fourier holograms. Optics Express, 28(24), 37069-37091. Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.405984
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title = "Suitability analysis of holographic vs light field and 2D displays for subjective quality assessment of Fourier holograms",
abstract = "Measuring the impact of compression on the reconstruction quality of holograms remains a challenge. A public subjectively-annotated holographic data set that allows for testing the performance of compression techniques and quality metrics is presented, in addition to a subjective visual quality assessment methodology. Moreover, the performance of the quality assessment procedures is compared for holographic, regular 2D and light field displays. For these experiments, a double-stimulus, multi-perspective, multi-depth testing methodology was designed and implemented. Analysis of the quality scores indicated that in the absence of a suitable holographic display and under the presented test conditions, non-holographic displays can be deployed to display numerically reconstructed holograms for visual quality assessment tasks.",
keywords = "Digital Holography, visual quality assessment, Holographic displays, Light field, 3D Display, 3d imaging",
author = "Ayyoub Ahar and Maksymilian Chlipala and Tobias Birnbaum and Weronika Zaperty and Athanasia Symeonidou and Tomasz Kozacki and Malgorzata Kujawinska and Peter Schelkens",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1364/OE.405984",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "37069--37091",
journal = "Optics Express",
issn = "1094-4087",
publisher = "The Optical Society",
number = "24",
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