Directional smoothing for interferogram reduction

Enxi Yu; Wonjong Joo; Soyoung Stephen Cha

doi:10.1117/12.163740

2 December 1993 Directional smoothing for interferogram reduction

Enxi Yu, Wonjong Joo, Soyoung Stephen Cha

Proceedings Volume 2005, Optical Diagnostics in Fluid and Thermal Flow; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163740
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, the concept of directional smoothing is introduced and its application to interferogram noise reduction is presented. Interferograms provide isophase lines, that is, fringes and they thus contain directional information. In essence, the method incorporates this valuable directional information of interferograms by setting up a slender mask of relatively large aspect ratio along a fringe. The new value, that is, the average or median intensity of the pixels within the slender mask is assigned to each pixel. The slender mask could be straight or curved. For a straight slender mask, one should find the average direction of fringes within a certain chosen region. For a curved slender mask, the mask is set up along the fringe direction and may vary for each pixel. Based on computer simulation of experiments, the results appear to be promising as compared with ordinary smoothing or median filtering.

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Enxi Yu, Wonjong Joo, and Soyoung Stephen Cha "Directional smoothing for interferogram reduction", Proc. SPIE 2005, Optical Diagnostics in Fluid and Thermal Flow, (2 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163740

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