Title
General linear cameras with finite aperture
Abstract
A pinhole camera selects a two-dimensional set of rays from the four-dimensional light field. Pinhole cameras are a type of general linear camera, defined as planar 2D slices of the 4D light field. Cameras with finite apertures can be considered as the summation of a collection of pinhole cameras. In the limit they evaluate a two-dimensional integral of the four-dimensional light field. Hence a general linear camera with finite aperture factors the 4D light field into two integrated dimensions and two imaged dimensions. We present a simple framework for representing these slices and integral projections, based on certain eigenspaces in a two-plane parameterization of the light field. Our framework allows for easy analysis of focus and perspective, and it demonstrates their dual nature. Using our framework, we present analogous taxonomies of perspective and focus, placing within them the familiar perspective, orthographic, cross-slit, and bilinear cameras; astigmatic and anastigmatic focus; and several other varieties of perspective and focus.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.2312/EGWR/EGSR07/121-126
Rendering Techniques
Keywords
Field
DocType
general linear camera,bilinear camera,anastigmatic focus,light field,finite aperture factor,four-dimensional light field,finite aperture,familiar perspective,pinhole camera,simple framework
Aperture,Computer vision,Pinhole camera,Computer graphics (images),Orthographic projection,Parametrization,Computer science,Light field,Planar,Artificial intelligence,Pinhole camera model,Bilinear interpolation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.61
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Adams193653.55
Marc Levoy2102731073.33