Fast Light Field Reconstruction With Deep Coarse-To-Fine Modeling of Spatial-Angular Clues

Henry Wing Fung Yeung, Junhui Hou, Jie Chen, Yuk Ying Chung, Xiaoming Chen; Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 137-152

Abstract


Densely-sampled light fields (LFs) are beneficial to many applications such as depth inference and post-capture refocusing. However, it is costly and challenging to capture them. In this paper, we propose a learning based algorithm to reconstruct a densely-sampled LF fast and accurately from a sparsely-sampled LF in one forward pass. Our method uses computationally efficient convolutions to deeply characterize the high dimensional spatial-angular clues in a coarse-tofine manner. Specifically, our end-to-end model first synthesizes a set of intermediate novel sub-aperture images (SAIs) by exploring the coarse characteristics of the sparsely-sampled LF input with spatial-angular alternating convolutions. Then, the synthesized intermediate novel SAIs are efficiently refined by further recovering the fine relations from all SAIs via guided residual learning and stride-2 4-D convolutions. Experimental results on extensive real-world and synthetic LF images show that our model can provide more than 3 dB advantage in reconstruction quality in average than the state-of-the-art methods while being computationally faster by a factor of 30. Besides, more accurate depth can be inferred from the reconstructed densely-sampled LFs by our method.

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@InProceedings{Yeung_2018_ECCV,
author = {Yeung, Henry Wing Fung and Hou, Junhui and Chen, Jie and Chung, Yuk Ying and Chen, Xiaoming},
title = {Fast Light Field Reconstruction With Deep Coarse-To-Fine Modeling of Spatial-Angular Clues},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}