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Light field (LF) cameras record both intensity and directions of light rays, and encode 3D scenes into 4D LF images. Recently, many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proposed for various LF image processing tasks. However, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Gaochang Wu , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Jingyi Yu , Yulan Guo

Nighttime camera-based depth estimation is a highly challenging task, especially for autonomous driving applications, where accurate depth perception is essential for ensuring safe navigation. Models trained on daytime data often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Simon de Moreau , Yasser Almehio , Andrei Bursuc , Hafid El-Idrissi , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Fabien Moutarde

Reliable depth estimation under real optical conditions remains a core challenge for camera vision in systems such as autonomous robotics and augmented reality. Despite recent progress in depth estimation and depth-of-field rendering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nisarg K. Trivedi , Vinayak A. Belludi , Li-Yun Wang

This paper presents a learning-based approach to synthesize the view from an arbitrary camera position given a sparse set of images. A key challenge for this novel view synthesis arises from the reconstruction process, when the views from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Nan Meng , Kai Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

Light field photography captures rich structural information that may facilitate a number of traditional image processing and computer vision tasks. A crucial ingredient in such endeavors is accurate depth recovery. We present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Rolf Köhler , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Hirsch

Light field cameras enable new capabilities, such as post-capture refocusing and aperture control, through capturing directional and spatial distribution of light rays in space. Micro-lens array based light field camera design is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 M. Umair Mukati , Bahadir K. Gunturk

We propose a method to compute depth maps for every sub-aperture image in a light field in a view consistent way. Previous light field depth estimation methods typically estimate a depth map only for the central sub-aperture view, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

In this paper, we delve into the realm of 4-D light fields (LFs) to enhance underwater imaging plagued by light absorption, scattering, and other challenges. Contrasting with conventional 2-D RGB imaging, 4-D LF imaging excels in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuji Lin , Junhui Hou , Xianqiang Lyu , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Light-field microscopy represents a promising solution for microscopic volumetric imaging, thanks to its capability to encode information on multiple planes in a single acquisition. This is achieved through its peculiar simultaneous capture…

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

In this paper, we describe how scene depth can be extracted using a hyperspectral light field capture (H-LF) system. Our H-LF system consists of a 5 x 6 array of cameras, with each camera sampling a different narrow band in the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kang Zhu , Yujia Xue , Qiang Fu , Sing Bing Kang , Xilin Chen , Jingyi Yu

Exploiting light field data makes it possible to obtain dense and accurate depth map. However, synthetic scenes with limited disparity range cannot contain the diversity of real scenes. By training in synthetic data, current learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Kunyuan Li , Jun Zhang , Jun Gao , Meibin Qi

On 3D imaging, light field cameras typically are of single shot, and however, they heavily suffer from low spatial resolution and depth accuracy. In this paper, by employing an optical projector to project a group of single high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Geyou Zhang , Ce Zhu , Kai Liu , Yipeng Liu

Light-field imaging facilitates the miniaturization of 3D cameras while it requires the extension of the depth-of-field (DoF) for practical applications such as endoscopy and intraoral scanning. Here we report a light-field camera (LFC)…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-21 Jae-Myeong Kwon , Sang-In Bae , Taehan Kim , Jeong Kun Kim , Ki-Hun Jeong

Light-field cameras allow the acquisition of both the spatial and angular components of the light. This has a wide range of applications from image refocusing to 3D reconstruction of a scene. The conventional way to perform such…

Light field applications, especially light field rendering and depth estimation, developed rapidly in recent years. While state-of-the-art light field rendering methods handle semi-transparent and reflective objects well, depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Titus Leistner , Radek Mackowiak , Lynton Ardizzone , Ullrich Köthe , Carsten Rother

Light-field cameras play a vital role for rich 3-D information retrieval in narrow range depth sensing applications. The key obstacle in composing light-fields from exposures taken by a plenoptic camera is to computationally calibrate,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Christopher Hahne , Amar Aggoun

Light field imaging extends the traditional photography by capturing both spatial and angular distribution of light, which enables new capabilities, including post-capture refocusing, post-capture aperture control, and depth estimation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 M. Shahzeb Khan Gul , Bahadir K. Gunturk

Feature detectors and descriptors are key low-level vision tools that many higher-level tasks build on. Unfortunately these fail in the presence of challenging light transport effects including partial occlusion, low contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Donald G. Dansereau , Bernd Girod , Gordon Wetzstein

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang