Three-dimensional reconstruction of a light field based on phase restoration for highly reflective surfaces

This paper proposes, a novel, to our knowledge, phase-restoration-based light field method to achieve 3D reconstruction of highly reflective surfaces. First, a focused light field camera whose angular and spatial resolutions can be adjusted according to the needs has been designed and fabricated to capture 4D light field information. Then, according to the pixel offsets between different sub-aperture images, a phase restoration method based on multi-view complementary information is proposed to restore the missing absolute phase information caused by highlights. Finally, a cubic B-spline curve method is used to directly fit the relationship between absolute phase and coordinates to achieve 3D reconstruction of highly reflective surfaces. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively utilizes the multi-view information from the light field to restore missing absolute phase data in the phase unwrapping, ensuring accurate 3D reconstruction of highly reflective surfaces. What is more, our method requires no additional hardware, camera angle calibration, or point cloud fusion, which significantly reduces both hardware complexity and computational demands.