“Light-field caching” by Opelt and Bimber
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- Light-field caching
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With the continuously increasing sensor resolutions of cameras, light field imaging is becoming a more and more practical extension to conventional digital photography. It complements post-processing by synthetic aperture control, refocusing, as well as perspective and field-of-view changes. For being a true alternative to classical 2D imaging, however, the spatial resolution of light fields must be in the same megapixel-order as the resolution of today’s digital images. The additional angular resolution must also be adequately high to prevent sampling artifacts (in particular for synthetic re-focussing). This will quickly cause gigabytes rather than megabytes of data that have to be rendered with limited graphics memory. We describe a light-field caching framework that makes it possible to render very large light fields in real-time.
