Title
The refocusing distance of a standard plenoptic photograph
Abstract
In the past years, the plenoptic camera aroused an increasing interest in the field of computer vision. Its capability of capturing three-dimensional image data is achieved by an array of micro lenses placed in front of a traditional image sensor. The acquired light field data allows for the reconstruction of photographs focused at different depths. Given the plenoptic camera parameters, the metric distance of refocused objects may be retrieved with the aid of geometric ray tracing. Until now there was a lack of experimental results using real image data to prove this conceptual solution. With this paper, the very first experimental work is presented on the basis of a new ray tracing model approach, which considers more accurate micro image centre positions. To evaluate the developed method, the blur metric of objects in a refocused image stack is measured and compared with proposed predictions. The results suggest quite an accurate approximation for distant objects and deviations for objects closer to the camera device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/3DTV.2015.7169363
2015 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Light field,plenoptic,camera,refocusing,distance estimate
Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Image sensor,Ray tracing (graphics),Computer science,Metric (mathematics),Light field,Lens (optics),Artificial intelligence,Real image,Optical imaging
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2161-2021
2
0.38
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
christopher hahne1102.09
Amar Aggoun211521.34
Vladan Velisavljevic326323.62