Wavefront Coding for Accommodation-Invariant Near-Eye Displays

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Hauptverfasser: Akpinar, Ugur, Sahin, Erdem, Hayward, Tina M., Majumder, Apratim, Menon, Rajesh, Gotchev, Atanas
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author Akpinar, Ugur
Sahin, Erdem
Hayward, Tina M.
Majumder, Apratim
Menon, Rajesh
Gotchev, Atanas
author_facet Akpinar, Ugur
Sahin, Erdem
Hayward, Tina M.
Majumder, Apratim
Menon, Rajesh
Gotchev, Atanas
contents We present a new computational near-eye display method that addresses the vergence-accommodation conflict problem in stereoscopic displays through accommodation-invariance. Our system integrates a refractive lens eyepiece with a novel wavefront coding diffractive optical element, operating in tandem with a pre-processing convolutional neural network. We employ end-to-end learning to jointly optimize the wavefront-coding optics and the image pre-processing module. To implement this approach, we develop a differentiable retinal image formation model that accounts for limiting aperture and chromatic aberrations introduced by the eye optics. We further integrate the neural transfer function and the contrast sensitivity function into the loss model to account for related perceptual effects. To tackle off-axis distortions, we incorporate position dependency into the pre-processing module. In addition to conducting rigorous analysis based on simulations, we also fabricate the designed diffractive optical element and build a benchtop setup, demonstrating accommodation-invariance for depth ranges of up to four diopters.
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spellingShingle Wavefront Coding for Accommodation-Invariant Near-Eye Displays
Akpinar, Ugur
Sahin, Erdem
Hayward, Tina M.
Majumder, Apratim
Menon, Rajesh
Gotchev, Atanas
Optics
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
We present a new computational near-eye display method that addresses the vergence-accommodation conflict problem in stereoscopic displays through accommodation-invariance. Our system integrates a refractive lens eyepiece with a novel wavefront coding diffractive optical element, operating in tandem with a pre-processing convolutional neural network. We employ end-to-end learning to jointly optimize the wavefront-coding optics and the image pre-processing module. To implement this approach, we develop a differentiable retinal image formation model that accounts for limiting aperture and chromatic aberrations introduced by the eye optics. We further integrate the neural transfer function and the contrast sensitivity function into the loss model to account for related perceptual effects. To tackle off-axis distortions, we incorporate position dependency into the pre-processing module. In addition to conducting rigorous analysis based on simulations, we also fabricate the designed diffractive optical element and build a benchtop setup, demonstrating accommodation-invariance for depth ranges of up to four diopters.
title Wavefront Coding for Accommodation-Invariant Near-Eye Displays
topic Optics
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12778