Synthetic aperture confocal imaging
Marc Levoy, Billy Chen, Vaibhav Vaish, Mark Horowitz, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 23(3), August 2004.
Abstract: Confocal microscopy is a family of imaging techniques that employ focused patterned illumination and synchronized imaging to create cross-sectional views of 3D biological specimens. In this paper, we adapt confocal imaging to large-scale scenes by replacing the optical apertures used in microscopy with arrays of real or virtual video projectors and cameras. Our prototype implementation uses a video projector, a camera, and an array of mirrors. Using this implementation, we explore confocal imaging of partially occluded environments, such as foliage, and weakly scattering environments, such as murky water. We demonstrate the ability to selectively image any plane in a partially occluded environment, and to see further through murky water than is otherwise possible. By thresholding the confocal images, we extract mattes that can be used to selectively illuminate any plane in the scene.
Keyword(s): Light fields, camera arrays, coded aperture, confocal microscopy, projector arrays, shaped illumination, synthetic aperture
@article{Levoy:2004:SAC,
author = {Marc Levoy and Billy Chen and Vaibhav Vaish and Mark Horowitz and Ian McDowall and Mark Bolas},
title = {Synthetic aperture confocal imaging},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
volume = {23},
number = {3},
pages = {825--834},
month = aug,
year = {2004},
}
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