Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis
Synchronization and Rolling Shutter Compensation for Consumer Video Camera Arrays
Two major obstacles to the use of consumer camcorders in computer vision applications are the lack of synchronization hardware, and the use of a "rolling" shutter, which introduces a temporal shear in the video volume. We present two simple approaches for solving both the rolling shutter shear and the synchronization problem at the same time. The first approach is based on strobe illumination, while the second employs a subframe warp along optical flow vectors. In our experiments we have used the proposed methods to effectively remove temporal shear, and synchronize up to 16 consumer-grade camcorders in multiple geometric configurations.
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Computational Plenoptic Imaging
Computer Graphics Forum 2011
Abstract
The plenoptic function is a ray-based model for light that includes the color spectrum as well as spatial,
temporal, and directional variation. Although digital light sensors have greatly evolved in the last years,
one fundamental limitation remains: all standard CCD and CMOS sensors integrate over the dimensions of the
plenoptic function as they convert photons into electrons; in the process, all visual information is irreversibly
lost, except for a two-dimensional, spatially-varying subset - the common photograph. In this state of the
art report, we review approaches that optically encode the dimensions of the plenpotic function transcending
those captured by traditional photography and reconstruct the recorded information computationally.
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@Article{Wetzstein11:CPI,
author = {Gordon Wetzstein, Ivo Ihrke, Douglas Lanman, and Wolfgang Heidrich},
title = {Computational Plenoptic Imaging},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {30},
number = {8},
year = {2011},
pages = {2397--2426},
publisher = {Blackwell Publishing},
}
author = {Gordon Wetzstein, Ivo Ihrke, Douglas Lanman, and Wolfgang Heidrich},
title = {Computational Plenoptic Imaging},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {30},
number = {8},
year = {2011},
pages = {2397--2426},
publisher = {Blackwell Publishing},
}