Mirrored Light Field Video Camera Adapter
This provides a cheap and simple solution for the robotic vision community to capture light field video, though it is incremental as it builds on existing light field camera concepts with a novel adapter design.
The paper tackles the problem of creating affordable and accessible light field video capture by designing a mirror-based camera adapter that generates an array of virtual cameras with overlapping fields of view at specified depths, delivering video frame rate light fields.
This paper proposes the design of a custom mirror-based light field camera adapter that is cheap, simple in construction, and accessible. Mirrors of different shape and orientation reflect the scene into an upwards-facing camera to create an array of virtual cameras with overlapping field of view at specified depths, and deliver video frame rate light fields. We describe the design, construction, decoding and calibration processes of our mirror-based light field camera adapter in preparation for an open-source release to benefit the robotic vision community.