Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis
A Reconfigurable Camera Add-On for High Dynamic Range, Multispectral, Polarization, and Light-Field Imaging
We propose a non-permanent add-on that enables plenoptic
imaging with standard cameras which we refer to as
KaleidoCamera. Our design is based on a physical copying
mechanism that multiplies a sensor image into a number of
identical copies that still carry the plenoptic information
of interest. Via different optical filters, we can then
recover the desired information. A minor modification of the
design also allows for aperture subsampling and, hence,
light-field imaging. As the filters in our design are
exchangeable, a reconfiguration for different imaging
purposes is possible. We show in a prototype setup that high
dynamic range, multispectral, polarization, and light-field
imaging can be achieved with our design.
Projects
On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction
In: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
Abstract
Photography has been striving to capture an ever increasing
amount of visual information in a single image. Digital
sensors, however, are limited to recording a small subset of
the desired information at each pixel. A common approach to
overcoming the limitations of sensing hardware is the optical
multiplexing of high-dimensional data into a photograph. While
this is a well-studied topic for imaging with color filter
arrays, we develop a mathematical framework that generalizes
multiplexed imaging to all dimensions of the plenoptic
function. This framework unifies a wide variety of existing
approaches to analyze and reconstruct multiplexed data in
either the spatial or the frequency domain. We demonstrate
many practical applications of our framework including
high-quality light field reconstruction, the first comparative
noise analysis of light field attenuation masks, and an
analysis of aliasing in multiplexing applications.
Project Page Bibtex
@article{Wetzstein:PlenopticMultiplexing:2012,
title={{On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction}},
author={Gordon Wetzstein and Ivo Ihrke and Wolfgang Heidrich},
year={2013},
volume = 101,
number = 2,
year = {2013},
pages = {384--400},
}
title={{On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction}},
author={Gordon Wetzstein and Ivo Ihrke and Wolfgang Heidrich},
year={2013},
volume = 101,
number = 2,
year = {2013},
pages = {384--400},
}