Study of various preprocessing schemes and wavelet filters for speckle noise reduction in digital speckle pattern interferometric fringes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Mirza, Saba ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Shakher, Chandra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Biorthogonal wavelet filter; Digital speckle pattern interferometry; Signal to noise ratio; Speckle index; Symlet wavelet filter

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BIORTHOGONAL WAVELET FILTER; DIGITAL SPECKLE PATTERN INTERFEROMETRY; SPECKLE INDEX; SYMLET WAVELET FILTER;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 22844457470     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1886749     Document Type: Article

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