Diffusion coded photography for extended depth of field

Abstract

In recent years, several cameras have been introduced which extend depth of field (DOF) by producing a depth-invariant point spread function (PSF). These cameras extend DOF by deblurring a captured image with a single spatially-invariant PSF. For these cameras, the quality of recovered images depends both on the magnitude of the PSF spectrum (MTF) of the camera, and the similarity between PSFs at different depths. While researchers have compared the MTFs of different extended DOF cameras, relatively little attention has been paid to evaluating their depth invariances. In this paper, we compare the depth invariance of several cameras, and introduce a new camera that improves in this regard over existing designs, while still maintaining a good MTF.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 26, 2010
Source ID
10.1145/1778765.1778768

Entities

People

  • Changyin Zhou
  • Oliver Cossairt
  • Shree Nayar

Organizations

  • Columbia University
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design