“Refocusing Images Captured from a Stereoscopic Camera” by Ku, Wang, Chang, Chu and Yao
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Entry Number: 90
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- Refocusing Images Captured from a Stereoscopic Camera
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Traditional photography projects a 3D scene to a 2D image without recording the depth of each local region, which prevents users from changing the focus plane of a photograph once it has been taken. To tackle this problem, Ng et al. [2005] presented light-field cameras that record all focus planes of a scene and synthesized the refocused image using ray tracing. Nevertheless, the captured photographs are of low resolution because the image sensor is divided into sub-cells. Levin et al. [2007] embedded a coded aperture on the camera lens and recover depth information from blur patterns in a single image. However, the coded aperture blocks around 50% of light. Their system requires longer exposition time when taking pictures. Liang et al. [2008] also embedded a coded aperture on the camera lens to capture the scene but with multiple exposures. It produces high quality depth maps yet is not suitable to hand-held devices. Recently, Microsoft Kinect directly estimates the depth information using infrared light, which works only in a indoor environment.
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