Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 10, 100501(2025)

Optimized binary computer holography via convolutional neural network-based differentiable binarization

Jiadi Shi1, Shuqing Cao2,3,4, Xian Ding1, Bo Dai1, Qi Wang1, Songlin Zhuang1, Dawei Zhang1, and Chenliang Chang1、*
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  • 1School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and System, Ministry of Education, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optics System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2School of Aerospace, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • 3Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Institute, Shanghai 201109, China
  • 4Shanghai Key Laboratory of Aerospace Intelligent Control Technology, Shanghai 201109, China
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    DMD holographic near-eye display scheme based on double-step band-limit diffraction.
    (a) Flowchart of the SGD optimization algorithm for generating binary CGH. (b1), (b2) The binarization network architecture.
    (a) Target images. (b)–(e) Simulated comparison of different binary CGH methods, including (b) direct binarization to SGD optimized amplitude hologram, (c) Func-B-SGD optimization with clip mapping binary-similar function, (d) Func-B-SGD optimization with curve mapping binary-similar function, and (e) our proposed CNN-B-SGD optimization.
    (a) Optical setup of DMD holographic near-eye display. (b) Comparison of experimental results of different methods. (c) Experimental results of holographic display using our CNN-B-SGD-based binary CGHs for the 2D image case. (d) Experimental results of holographic display using our CNN-B-SGD-based binary CGHs for a true 3D case when the camera is focusing from 400 to 700 mm. Intensity image and corresponding depth map of the 3D scene are illustrated.
    Experimental results of full-color holographic display using our CNN-B-SGD based binary CGHs.
    • Table 1. Runtime for Generating Single Binary CGH Using Different Methods

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      Table 1. Runtime for Generating Single Binary CGH Using Different Methods

       Direct binarizationFunc-B-SGD with clip mappingFunc-B-SGD with curve mappingProposed method
      Time (s)1.972.052.143.60
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    Jiadi Shi, Shuqing Cao, Xian Ding, Bo Dai, Qi Wang, Songlin Zhuang, Dawei Zhang, Chenliang Chang, "Optimized binary computer holography via convolutional neural network-based differentiable binarization," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 100501 (2025)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Diffraction, Gratings, and Holography

    Received: Apr. 11, 2025

    Accepted: Jun. 10, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 17, 2025

    The Author Email: Chenliang Chang (changchenliang@hotmail.com)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202523.100501

    CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.100501

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