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Depth Extraction from a Light Field Camera Using Weighted Median Filtering

verfasst von : Changtian Sun, Gangshan Wu

Erschienen in: Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2016

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The invention of light field camera provides an approach of extracting depth from a collection of refocused photos. However, current depth from focus methods are suffering from the problem of inaccuracy, especially in the regions of object boundaries. In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract an accurate depth map from several refocused images. We first render a collection of images by uniformly changing the focal length. Then we deduce a rough depth map according to the amount of blur, which is measured by a multi-scale gradient operator. Finally, we apply a weighted median filter for refinement, which suppresses depth noise and supplies a well recovery of object boundaries and fine structures. The experimental results show that our method outperforms the built-in method from Lytro light field camera.

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Metadaten
Titel
Depth Extraction from a Light Field Camera Using Weighted Median Filtering
verfasst von
Changtian Sun
Gangshan Wu
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48896-7_18

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