Entry Date:
December 2, 2014

A Switchable Light Field Camera

Principal Investigator Ramesh Raskar


We propose a flexible light field camera architecture that represents a convergence of optics, sensor electronics, and applied mathematics. Through the co-design of a sensor that comprises tailored, Angle Sensitive Pixels and advanced reconstruction algorithms, we show that -- contrary to light field cameras today -- the system can use the same measurements captured in a single sensor image to recover either a high-resolution 2D image, a low-resolution 4D light field using fast, linear processing, or a high-resolution light field using sparsity-constrained optimization.