Anamorphic pixels for multi-channel superresolution

Oberdörster, Alexander; Favaro, Paolo; Lensch, P. A. Hendrik (2014). Anamorphic pixels for multi-channel superresolution. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) (pp. 1-10). IEEE 10.1109/ICCPHOT.2014.6831805

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Superresolution from plenoptic cameras or camera arrays is usually treated similarly to superresolution from video streams. However, the transformation between the low-resolution views can be determined precisely from camera geometry and parallax. Furthermore, as each low-resolution image originates from a unique physical camera, its sampling properties can also be unique. We exploit this option with a custom design of either the optics or the sensor pixels. This design makes sure that the sampling matrix of the complete system is always well-formed, enabling robust and high-resolution image reconstruction. We show that simply changing the pixel aspect ratio from square to anamorphic is sufficient to achieve that goal, as long as each camera has a unique aspect ratio. We support this claim with theoretical analysis and image reconstruction of real images. We derive the optimal aspect ratios for sets of 2 or 4 cameras. Finally, we verify our solution with a camera system using an anamorphic lens.

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