PlenoptiSign: an optical design tool for plenoptic imaging
This provides a practical tool for researchers and engineers designing plenoptic imaging systems, but it is incremental as it implements existing findings into software.
The authors tackled the problem of unclear depth plane distances in plenoptic imaging by developing PlenoptiSign, a Python software tool that assists in experimental prototyping based on prior research linking depth sampling to optical parameters.
Plenoptic imaging enables a light-field to be captured by a single monocular objective lens and an array of micro lenses attached to an image sensor. Metric distances of the light-field's depth planes remain unapparent prior to acquisition. Recent research showed that sampled depth locations rely on the parameters of the system's optical components. This paper presents PlenoptiSign, which implements these findings as a Python software package to help assist in an experimental or prototyping stage of a plenoptic system.