Improved Camera Distortion Correction and Depth Estimation for Lenslet Light Field Camera

摘要

A light field camera can capture both radiance and angular information, providing a novel solution for depth estimation. The paper proposes two improved methods including distortion model optimization and depth estimation refinement for a lenslet light field camera. For distortion model optimization, a novel 14-parameter distortion model that involves sub-aperture images generation is applied to correct the light field camera images. For depth estimation refinement, an algorithm reducing the high influence of outliers on depth estimation in weak texture regions is proposed based on multi-view stereo matching using the cost volume. Experimental results show the projection error has decreased by about 30% and the depth root-mean-squared error on real world images has decreased by about 42% with our distortion correction method and depth estimation method compared with state of art algorithms. It verifies the correctness and effectiveness of our proposed methods and show significant improvement on accuracy of depth map estimation.