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6 November 2023 Lensless light-field imaging with flexible perspective selection
Chen Mo, Yupei Miao, Xiaojie Zhang, Jiangtao Xi, Jun Tong, Xiaoli Liu
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Proceedings Volume 12921, Third International Computing Imaging Conference (CITA 2023); 129210A (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687471
Event: Third International Computing Imaging Conference (CITA 2023), 2023, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
The perspectives of light-field images taken by lens-based light-field camera are fixed due to the fixed position and size of lenslet. Unlike lens-based light-field imaging, lensless light-field imaging technologies encode light-field information of scene through a diffuser, and then reconstruct the light-field images by computational algorithms. In this paper, a commercial holographic diffuser is employed in the lensless light-field imaging system, and a flexible complementary segmentation method of sub-aperture region is proposed for the Point Spread Function (PSF). The surface of the holographic diffuser is composed of relief microstructures, which are pseudo-random and non-periodic. Hence, any region of the holographic diffuser can encode and recover light information of object independently, just like sub-aperture imaging from corresponding perspective. Firstly, the PSF of lensless light-field imaging system is calibrated, and the encoded image of scene is also captured. After that, the PSF is divided into two complementary regions as sub-PSFs, corresponding to different sub-aperture regions. Then sub-aperture images of scene are reconstructed with corresponding sub-PSFs through reconstruction algorithm, achieving light-field image of selected perspective. Properly dividing the sub-PSF and reconstructing sub-aperture image, the sub-aperture image array of light-field can be obtained. With these light-field images, digital refocusing can be achieved finally. Different from existing segmentation method of PSF in lensless light-field imaging, the complementary segmentation method divides PSF into two sub-PSFs while these tow sub-PSFs are complementary to each other. This allows us to arbitrarily select the position and size of sub-PSF flexibly, namely flexible perspective selection. Meanwhile, decreasing the sub-aperture images to be reconstructed in algorithm can reduce error in reconstruction. Experiments show that, the complementary segmentation method can freely select the position and size of sub-aperture region while reducing the reconstruction error of lensless light-field imaging system significantly.
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Chen Mo, Yupei Miao, Xiaojie Zhang, Jiangtao Xi, Jun Tong, and Xiaoli Liu "Lensless light-field imaging with flexible perspective selection", Proc. SPIE 12921, Third International Computing Imaging Conference (CITA 2023), 129210A (6 November 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2687471
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KEYWORDS
Diffusers

Point spread functions

Image restoration

Imaging systems

Cameras

4D image capture

High angular resolution diffusion imaging

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