A synthetic hologram depicting a natural scene faces the difficulty of
recording a tremendous number of pictures. This paper presents an ide
a to solve this problem. The scheme needs only few pictures, but can g
ive satisfactory visual effects by a simple and fast algorithm. It is
based on the matching process of stereo vision. Analysis and experimen
tal results illustrate the feasibility of the approach. (C) 1998 Socie
ty of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.