Compressive light field photography using overcomplete dictionaries and optimized projections
Abstract
Light field photography has gained a significant research interest in the last two decades; today, commercial light field cameras are widely available. Nevertheless, most existing acquisition approaches either multiplex a low-resolution light field into a single 2D sensor image or require multiple photographs to be taken for acquiring a high-resolution light field. We propose a compressive light field camera architecture that allows for higher-resolution light fields to be recovered than previously possible from a single image. The proposed architecture comprises three key components: light field atoms as a sparse representation of natural light fields, an optical design that allows for capturing optimized 2D light field projections, and robust sparse reconstruction methods to recover a 4D light field from a single coded 2D projection. In addition, we demonstrate a variety of other applications for light field atoms and sparse coding, including 4D light field compression and denoising.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 21, 2013
- Source ID
- 10.1145/2461912.2461914
Entities
People
- Gordon Wetzstein
- Kshitij Marwah
- Ramesh Raskar
- Yosuke Bando
Organizations
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- MIT Media Lab
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Toshiba