The Light Field Attachment: Turning a DSLR into a Light Field Camera Using a Low Budget Camera Ring
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computer Science ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Visual Computing Center (VCC)
Date
2016-11-16Online Publication Date
2016-11-16Print Publication Date
2017-10-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623686
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We propose a concept for a lens attachment that turns a standard DSLR camera and lens into a light field camera. The attachment consists of 8 low-resolution, low-quality side cameras arranged around the central high-quality SLR lens. Unlike most existing light field camera architectures, this design provides a high-quality 2D image mode, while simultaneously enabling a new high-quality light field mode with a large camera baseline but little added weight, cost, or bulk compared with the base DSLR camera. From an algorithmic point of view, the high-quality light field mode is made possible by a new light field super-resolution method that first improves the spatial resolution and image quality of the side cameras and then interpolates additional views as needed. At the heart of this process is a super-resolution method that we call iterative Patch- And Depth-based Synthesis (iPADS), which combines patch-based and depth-based synthesis in a novel fashion. Experimental results obtained for both real captured data and synthetic data confirm that our method achieves substantial improvements in super-resolution for side-view images as well as the high-quality and view-coherent rendering of dense and high-resolution light fields.Citation
Wang Y, Liu Y, Heidrich W, Dai Q (2016) The Light Field Attachment: Turning a DSLR into a Light Field Camera Using a Low Budget Camera Ring. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics: 1–1. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2016.2628743.Sponsors
This work was supported by the National key foundation for exploring scientific instrument No.2013YQ140517, the National NSF of China grant No.61522111 and No.61531014.Additional Links
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7744676/ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/tvcg.2016.2628743