Computational integral imaging reconstruction of perspective and orthographic view images by common patches analysis.

Abstract

A novel method to computationally reconstruct perspective and orthographic view images with full resolution of a recording device from a single integral photograph is proposed. Firstly, a group of image slices that contain full yet redundant information to reconstruct the view image are generated, and the object surface is divided into pieces by the points that correspond to the centers of image slices. Secondly, the image slices that contribute to the pieces are extracted and redundant information embedded in them are figured out by common patches analysis. Finally, the view image is reconstructed by excluding the redundant information and resampling with maximum sampling rate. Each piece of the object surface is represented with 9 patches at most from 4 adjacent elemental images, and view images with high quality are reconstructed. Both simulations and experiments verify the validity of the method.