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S Derin Babacan¹, Reto Ansorge, Martin Luessi

¹Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. dbabacan@illinois.edu

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

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This study introduces a new light field image acquisition method using compressive sensing and a coded mask. It enables high-resolution light field recovery from fewer images, overcoming limitations of current designs.

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Area of Science:

Optics
Image Processing
Computer Vision

Background:

Light field cameras capture angular and spatial information, enabling depth perception and refocusing.
Traditional light field cameras often face trade-offs between spatial resolution and angular sampling.
Compressive sensing offers a framework for acquiring signals from fewer measurements than traditionally required.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel light field image acquisition system leveraging compressive sensing.
To develop a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm for recovering high-quality light field images.
To demonstrate a prototype system and its effectiveness for various imaging scenarios.

Main Methods:

A randomly coded mask is placed at the camera aperture to encode angular information.
Incoherent measurements are captured, representing random linear combinations of angular views.
A novel Bayesian reconstruction algorithm is employed to recover the light field from encoded images.

Main Results:

Light field images with numerous angular views can be reconstructed from a limited number of acquisitions.
The proposed method achieves high spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio in reconstructed images.
Experimental results with synthetic and real data validate the system's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

The proposed compressive sensing-based light field acquisition system offers a viable alternative to conventional designs.
This approach overcomes resolution-angular sampling trade-offs inherent in existing light field cameras.
The developed prototype demonstrates practical applicability and robust performance.