A Compact Light Field Camera for Real-Time Depth Estimation
This work addresses the need for practical, real-world applications of depth cameras by providing a solution that is both fast and portable, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing light field principles.
The paper tackles the problem of real-time depth estimation by introducing a compact light field camera that overcomes the high computation time and large design of existing approaches, achieving real-time depth information with a compact form factor.
Depth cameras are utilized in many applications. Recently light field approaches are increasingly being used for depth computation. While these approaches demonstrate the technical feasibility, they can not be brought into real-world application, since they have both a high computation time as well as a large design. Exactly these two drawbacks are overcome in this paper. For the first time, we present a depth camera based on the light field principle, which provides real-time depth information as well as a compact design.