Abstract

Recently, a theory on local polynomial approximations for phase-unwrapping algorithms, considering a state space analysis, has been proposed in Appl. Opt. 56, 29 (2017) [CrossRef]  . Although this work is a suitable methodology to deal with relatively low signal to noise ratios observed in the wrapped phase, the methodology has been developed only for local-polynomial phase models of order 1. The resultant proposal is an interesting Kalman filter approach for estimating the coefficient or state vectors of these local plane models. Thus, motivated by this approach and simple Bayesian theory, and considering our previous research on local polynomial models up to the third order [Appl. Opt. 58, 436 (2019) [CrossRef]  ], we propose an equivalent methodology based on a simple maximum a posteriori estimation, but considering a different state space: difference vectors of coefficients for the current high-order polynomial models. Specific estimations of the covariance matrices for difference vectors, as well as noise covariance matrices involved with the correct estimation of coefficient vectors, are proposed and reconstructions with synthetic and real data are provided.

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