Centered-camera-based effective perspective images' segmentation and mosaicking method for full-parallax holographic...

The centered-camera-based effective perspective images' segmentation and mosaicking (CCEPISM) method is proposed to improve the previous EPISM-based printing of full-parallax holographic stereograms. The idea of pixel mapping from target camera images to centered camera images is analyzed, and backward pixel mapping as well as forward pixel mapping are modeled and formulated to transform the perspective images captured by different camera strategies. The principle of the proposed CCEPISM is introduced in detail along with its specific implementation. The experimental results validate the proposed method and demonstrate that CCEPISM is an effective method for printing full-parallax holographic stereograms, and the quality of optical reconstruction is the same as that of EPISM-based holographic stereograms. The whole 3D scene is captured by a centered camera image, and the pixel waste caused by simple camera capture and the number of sampled perspective images is reduced significantly.