“A low-cost test bed for light field capture experiments” by Veeraraghavan, Mohan, Tumblin, Raskar and Agrawal
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- A low-cost test bed for light field capture experiments
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Current light-field capture devices are complex, usually require modifying the internals of a conventional camera, and discourage new experimentation in a topic area full of new research questions. We adapt a novel ‘home-made’ camera devised by Wang and Heidrich [2004] for use in a variety of light-field experiments. Unlike commercially available cameras, the camera provides a large effective sensor size, large distance between the lens and the sensor, much larger effective pixel size, extremely high resolution (490 million pixels), low cost (around $500US), and a nominal capture speed of a few seconds. This easily-modified design encourages novices to experiment with light fields. We demonstrate how to implement the microlens based light-field camera of Ng et al. [2005], and the mask based light field camera of Veeraraghavan et al. [2007].
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1. Ng, R., Levoy, M., Brédif, M., Duval, G., Horowitz, M., and Hanrahan, P. 2005. Light field photography with a hand-held plenoptic camera. Tech. Rep. CSTR 2005-02, Stanford University.
2. Veeraraghavan, A., Raskar, R., Agrawal, A., Mohan, A., and Tumblin, J. 2007. Coded aperture and optical heterodyning. In SIGGRAPH, to appear.
3. Wang, S., and Heidrich, W. 2004. The design of an inexpensive very high resolution scan camera system. In Eurographics, 441–450.
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