NDLI: Diffusion coded photography for extended depth of field

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Nayar, Shree Zhou, Changyin Cossairt, Oliver
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In recent years, several cameras have been introduced which extend depth of field (DOF) by producing a depth-invariant point spread function (PSF). These cameras extend DOF by deblurring a captured image with a single spatially-invariant PSF. For these cameras, the quality of recovered images depends both on the magnitude of the PSF spectrum (MTF) of the camera, and the similarity between PSFs at different depths. While researchers have compared the MTFs of different extended DOF cameras, relatively little attention has been paid to evaluating their depth invariances. In this paper, we compare the depth invariance of several cameras, and introduce a new camera that improves in this regard over existing designs, while still maintaining a good MTF. Our technique utilizes a novel optical element placed in the pupil plane of an imaging system. Whereas previous approaches use optical elements characterized by their amplitude or phase profile, our approach utilizes one whose behavior is characterized by its scattering properties. Such an element is commonly referred to as an optical diffuser, and thus we refer to our new approach as diffusion coding. We show that diffusion coding can be analyzed in a simple and intuitive way by modeling the effect of a diffuser as a kernel in light field space. We provide detailed analysis of diffusion coded cameras and show results from an implementation using a custom designed diffuser.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	10
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07300301
e-ISSN	15577368
DOI	10.1145/1778765.1778768
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	4
Journal	ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2010-07-26
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Computational photography Extended depth of field
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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