Abstract:
Light-field (LF) reconstruction from focal stack images has diverse applications including face recognition, autonomous driving, and 3D reconstruction in virtual reality....Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Light-field (LF) reconstruction from focal stack images has diverse applications including face recognition, autonomous driving, and 3D reconstruction in virtual reality. It is a large-scale ill-conditioned inverse problem and typically requires regularized iterative algorithms to solve, which can be slow. This paper proposes a non-iterative LF reconstruction and depth estimation method based on three sequential convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The first CNN estimates an all-in-focus image from focal stack images. The second CNN estimates 4D ray depth from the estimated all-in-focus image via the first CNN, and focal stack images. The third CNN refines a Lambertian LF that is rendered using the all-in-focus image and ray depth estimated by the first and second CNNs, respectively. Numerical experiments show that the proposed CNN-based method achieves significantly more accurate and/or faster LF reconstruction, compared to a state-of-the-art sequential CNN using a single image, conventional model-based image reconstruction from a focal stack, and direct regression CNN from a focal stack.
Published in: ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Date of Conference: 04-08 May 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 09 April 2020
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