Abstract

Two-dimensional phase unwrapping is a crucial step in interferometric signal processing. A phase quality map can help the unwrapping algorithm deal with low-quality and fast-changing regions. However, because existing algorithms cannot calculate a quality map representing the gradient quality directly, it is usually necessary to approximate the gradient quality with phase quality to assist the network-based phase unwrapping algorithm. Furthermore, they cannot withstand intense noise in low-quality regions, resulting in many errors in path-based algorithms. To address the aforementioned issues, this paper analyzes the essence of a quality map and proposes a quality map generation method based on a convolutional neural network. The generated quality maps are a pair, each indicating the quality of horizontal and vertical gradients. Experiments show that the quality map generated by this method can help path-based and network-based algorithms perform better.

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