Window size selection of windowed fourier ridges for phase discontinuity in quality-guided phase unwrapping

Windowed Fourier ridges algorithm can provide a quality map to assist the quality-guided phase unwrapping. Its performance for discontinuous phase maps is investigated in this paper, where the influence of window size in the algorithm is examined. Three discontinuous phase boundaries, straight, curved, and fused, are tested for both noiseless and noisy situations. Encouraging results are observed. Small window size can be used for higher boundary detection accuracy and can be enlarged if noise is heavy and/or the discontinuities are not obvious in a small area.