scholarly journals Photo-consistency and multiresolution methods for light field disparity estimation

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Light Field ◽  
Disparity Estimation ◽  
Multiresolution Methods

scholarly journals Attention-Based View Selection Networks for Light-Field Disparity Estimation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 12095-12103
Author(s):  
Yu-Ju Tsai ◽  
Yu-Lun Liu ◽  
Ming Ouhyoung ◽  
Yung-Yu Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Light Field ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Depth Estimation ◽  
Disparity Estimation ◽  
View Selection ◽  
Deep Network ◽  
Depth Maps ◽  
Improve Accuracy ◽  
Light Field Image ◽  
Symmetric Property

This paper introduces a novel deep network for estimating depth maps from a light field image. For utilizing the views more effectively and reducing redundancy within views, we propose a view selection module that generates an attention map indicating the importance of each view and its potential for contributing to accurate depth estimation. By exploring the symmetric property of light field views, we enforce symmetry in the attention map and further improve accuracy. With the attention map, our architecture utilizes all views more effectively and efficiently. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy and ranks the first on a popular benchmark for disparity estimation for light field images.

scholarly journals Enhancement of light field disparity maps by reducing the silhouette effect and plane noise

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui M. Lourenco ◽  
Luis M. N. Tavora ◽  
Pedro A. A. Assuncao ◽  
Lucas A. Thomaz ◽  
Rui Fonseca-Pinto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Object Representation ◽  
Light Field ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Structure Tensor ◽  
Disparity Estimation ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Disparity Maps

AbstractDuring the last decade, there has been an increasing number of applications dealing with multidimensional visual information, either for 3D object representation or feature extraction purposes. In this context, recent advances in light field technology, have been driving research efforts in disparity estimation methods. Among the existing ones, those based on the structure tensor have emerged as very promising to estimate disparity maps from Epipolar Plane Images. However, this approach is known to have two intrinsic limitations: (i) silhouette enlargement and (ii) irregularity of surface normal maps as computed from the estimated disparity. To address these problems, this work proposes a new method for improving disparity maps obtained from the structure-tensor approach by enhancing the silhouette and reducing the noise of planar surfaces in light fields. An edge-based approach is initially used for silhouette improvement through refinement of the estimated disparity values around object edges. Then, a plane detection algorithm, based on a seed growth strategy, is used to estimate planar regions, which in turn are used to guide correction of erroneous disparity values detected in object boundaries. The proposed algorithm shows an average improvement of 98.3% in terms of median angle error for plane surfaces, when compared to regular structure-tensor-based methods, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. The proposed framework also presents very competitive results, in terms of mean square error between disparity maps and their ground truth, when compared with their counterparts.

scholarly journals Efficient and Accurate Disparity Estimation from MLA-Based Plenoptic Cameras

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Palmieri
Keyword(s):  
Light Field ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Microlens Array ◽  
Depth Estimation ◽  
Calibration Method ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Disparity Estimation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Estimation Algorithms

Microlens-array based plenoptic cameras capture the light field in a single shot, enabling new potential applications but also introducing additional challenges. A plenoptic image consists of thousand of microlens images. Estimating the disparity for each microlens allows to render conventional images, changing the perspective and the focal settings, and to reconstruct the three-dimensional geometry of the scene. The work includes a blur-aware calibration method to model plenoptic cameras, an optimization method to accurately select the best microlenses combination for disparity estimation, an overview of the different types of plenoptic cameras, an analysis of the disparity estimation algorithms, and a robust depth estimation approach for light field microscopy. The research led to the creation of a full framework for plenoptic cameras, which contains the implementation of the algorithms discussed in the work and datasets of both real and synthetic images for comparison, benchmarking and future research.

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