Dual-camera enabled real-time three-dimensional integral imaging pick-up and display

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 20; no. 25; pp. 27304 - 27311
• Main Authors: Jiao, Xiaoxue, Zhao, Xing, Yang, Yong, Fang, Zhiliang, Yuan, Xiaocong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 03.12.2012
• Subjects: Computer Systems; Imaging, Three-Dimensional - instrumentation; Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods; Lenses; Models, Theoretical; Optics and Photonics - instrumentation; Optics and Photonics - methods; Photography - instrumentation; Photography - methods
• ISSN: 1094-4087; 1094-4087
• DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.027304

A new real-time integral imaging pick-up and display method is demonstrated. This proposed method utilizes the dual-camera optical pick-up part to collect 3D information of real scene in real-time without pre-calibration. Elemental images are then provided by a computer-generated integral imaging part and displayed by a projection-type integral imaging display part. The theoretical analysis indicates the method is robust to the camera position deviation, which profits the real-time data processing. Experimental results show that the fully continuous, real 3D scene pick-up and display system is feasible with a throughput of 8 fps in real time. Further analysis predicts that the parallel optimization can be adopted by the proposed method for real-time 3D pick-up and display with a throughput of 25 fps.