SPIE library

Abstract: View-reconstruction and display is an important part of many applications in digital holography such as computer vision and microscopy. Thus far, this has been an offline procedure for megapixel sized holograms. This paper introduces an implementation of real-time view-reconstruction using programmable graphics hardware. The theory of Fresnel-based view-reconstruction is introduced, after which an implementation using stream programming is presented. Two different fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based reconstruction methods are implemented, as well as two different FFT strategies. The efficiency of the methods is evaluated and compared to a CPU-based implementation, providing over 100 times speedup for a hologram size of 2048 × 2048.

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@article{Ahrenberg:2009:UCG,
	title = {Using Commodity Graphics Hardware for Real-Time Digital
                 Hologram View-Reconstruction},
	author = {Lukas~Ahrenberg and Andrew~J.~Page and Bryan~M.~Hennelly
                  and John~B.~McDonald and Thomas~J.~Naughton},
	journal = {OSA/IEEE Journal of Display Technology},
	year = {2009},
	volume = {5},
	number = {4},
	pages = {111--119}
}

Abstract: We present a method to analytically compute the light distribution of triangles directly in frequency space. This allows for fast evaluation, shading, and propagation of light from 3D mesh objects using angular spectrum methods. The algorithm complexity is only dependent on the hologram resolution and the polygon count of the 3D model. In contrast to other polygon based computer generated holography methods we do not need to perform a Fourier transform per surface. The theory behind the approach is derived, and a suitable algorithm to compute a digital hologram from a general triangle mesh is presented. We review some first results rendered on a spatial-light-modulator-based display by our proof-of-concept software.

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@article{Ahrenberg:08,
author = {Lukas Ahrenberg and Philip Benzie and Marcus Magnor and John Watson},
journal = {Appl. Opt.},
keywords = {Fourier optics and signal processing ; Holography; Computer holography},
number = {10},
pages = {1567–1574},
publisher = {OSA},
title = {Computer generated holograms from three dimensional meshes using an analytic light transport model},
volume = {47},
year = {2008},
url = {http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-47-10-1567},
}

Update November 2011. I made a post on this web page regarding some details of the paper.

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@article{Page:2008:LMD,
 author = {Andrew J. Page and Lukas Ahrenberg and Thomas J. Naughton},
 journal = {Opt. Express},
 keywords = {Digital image processing; Digital holography},
number = {3},
 pages = {1990--1995},
 publisher = {OSA},
title = {Low memory distributed reconstruction of large digital holograms},
 volume = {16},
 year = {2008},
url = {http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-3-1990},
}

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ziegler:2007:BLT,
AUTHOR = {Ziegler,
 Remo and Bucheli,
 Simon and Ahrenberg,
 Lukas and Magnor,
 Marcus and Gross,
 Markus},
EDITOR = {Cohen Or,
 Danny and Slavik,
 Pavel},
TITLE = {A Bidirectional Light Field - Hologram Transform},
BOOKTITLE = {Computer Graphics Forum},
PUBLISHER = {Blackwell Publishing},
YEAR = {2007},
ORGANIZATION = {Eurographics Association},
NUMBER = {3},
VOLUME = {26},
PAGES = {435--446},
ADDRESS = {Prauge,
 Czech Republic},
MONTH = {September},
ISBN = {0167+7055},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Ahrenberg:2007:PhD,
author = {Lukas Ahrenberg},
 title = {Methods for transform,
 analysis and rendering of complete light representations},
 school = {Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Informatik},
 year = {2007},
address = {Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85,
 66123 Saarbr\"ucken,
 Germany},
 month = {July},
}

Abstract: This paper presents a novel method for using programmable
graphics hardware to generate fringe patterns for SLM-based holographic
displays. The algorithm is designed to take the programming constraints
imposed by the graphics hardware pipeline model into consideration, and
scales linearly with the number of object points. In contrast to previous
methods we do not have to use the Fresnel approximation. The technique
can also be used on several graphics processors in parallel for further
optimization. We achieve real-time frame rates for objects consisting of a
few hundred points at a resolution of 960 × 600 pixels and over 10 frames
per second for 1000 points.

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@Article{Ahrenberg:2006:CGH,
  author = {Lukas Ahrenberg and Philip Benzie and Marcus Magnor and John Watson},
  title = {Computer generated holography using parallel commodity graphics hardware},
  journal = {Optics Express},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {14},
  number = {17},
  pages = {7636-7641},
  month = {August},
}

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ahrenberg:2006:LMO,
AUTHOR = {Ahrenberg,
 Lukas and Magnor,
 Marcus},
TITLE = {Light Field Rendering using Matrix Optics},
BOOKTITLE = {The 14-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics,
 Visualization and Computer Vision 2006},
PUBLISHER = {UNION Agency--Science Press},
YEAR = {2006},
PAGES = {177--184},
ADDRESS = {Plzen,
 Czech Republic},
ISBN = {80-86943-03-8},
}

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ahrenberg2005a,
AUTHOR = {Ahrenberg,
 Lukas and Ihrke,
 Ivo and Magnor,
 Marcus},
EDITOR = {Gr\"oller,
 Eduard and Fujishiro,
 I. and M\"oller,
 Klaus and Ertl,
 T.},
TITLE = {Volumetric Reconstruction,
 Compression and Rendering of Natural Phenomena from Multi-Video Data},
BOOKTITLE = {Volume graphics 2005 : Eurographics/IEEE VGTC workshop
proceedings; Fourth International Workshop on Volume Graphics},
PUBLISHER = {Eurographics},
YEAR = {2005},
PAGES = {83--90},
ADDRESS = {Stony Brook,
 New York,
 USA},
ISBN = {3-905673-26-6},
}