Dappled Photography: Mask Enhanced Cameras for Heterodyned Light Fields and Coded Aperture Refocusing
| Citation: | * Veeraraghavan, A.; Raskar, R.; Agrawal, A.; Mohan, A.; Tumblin, J., "Dappled Photography: Mask Enhanced Cameras for Heterodyned Light Fields and Coded Aperture Refocusing", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ISSN: 0730-0301, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Article 69, July 2007 (ACM Press) |
| MERL Report: | TR2007-115 |
Spatially varying PSF can be handled for planar scenes using homography. Shown is an all focus composite obtained by fusing deblurred images at varying scales appropriately.
We describe a theoretical framework for reversibly modulating 4D light fields using an attenuating mask in the optical path of a lens based camera. Based on this framework, we present a novel design to reconstruct the 4D light field from a 2D camera image without any additional refractive elements as required by previous light field cameras. The patterned mask attenuates light rays inside the camera instead of bending them, and the attenuation recoverably encodes the rays on the 2D sensor. Our mask-equipped camera focuses just as a traditional camera to capture conventional 2D photos at full sensor resolution, but the raw pixel values also hold a modulated 4D light field. The light field can be recovered by rearranging the tiles of the 2D Fourier transform of sensor values into 4D planes and computing the inverse Fourier transform. In addition, one can also recover the full resolution image information for the in-focus parts of the scene.
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