MIT researchers use AI to create 3D holograms in real-time

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a method to produce holograms instantaneously. The method relies on deep learning and can be run on a smartphone. The team used deep learning to accelerate computer-generated holography, allowing for real-time hologram generation. The researchers designed a convolutional neural network and built a custom database of 4,000 pairs of computer-generated images. To create the holograms in the new database, the researchers used scenes with complex and variable shapes and colours, with the depth of pixels distributed evenly from the background to the foreground, and with a new set of physics-based calculations to handle occlusion.