Measuring Refractive Properties of Human Vision by Showing 4D Light Fields

In this paper, we propose a novel method for measuring refractive properties of human vision. Our method generates a special 4D light field and present it to human observers, so that the observers will see different images according to their dioptric properties, i.e. the amount of near sightedness and far sightedness. Thus, we can measure the visual properties of observers just by showing the light field images. The proposed method does not require expensive measurement systems nor well trained medical doctors unlike the existing eyesight measurement methods. The real image experiments and the synthetic image experiments show the efficiency of the proposed method.

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