Comparative study of integral imaging and multicamera pickup for acquisition of three-dimensional information

Recently, the integral imaging, which was mainly intended to pick up and display three-dimensional images, has been applied to the acquisition of the three-dimensional information of an object by several research groups. The use of a lens array and a single camera is attractive because of the simple structure. But, the elemental images that are picked up by the lens array has some degree of redundancy and the perspective angle is limited compared with the multi-camera method. In this paper, we concentrate on the acquisition of the three-dimensional information of the object by the three methods (using a lens array, using lens array and elemental image modification and using multiple cameras) and compare them in the aspects of the ambiguity, precision and quantization error.

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