Hemispherical confocal imaging using turtleback reflector
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Mukaigawa, Yasuhiro; Tagawa, Seiichi; Kim, Jaewon; Raskar, Ramesh; Matsushita, Yasuyuki; Yagi, Yasushi; ... Show more Show less
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We propose a new imaging method called hemispherical confocal imaging to clearly visualize a particular depth in a 3-D scene. The key optical component is a turtleback reflector which is a specially designed polyhedral mirror. By combining the turtleback reflector with a coaxial pair of a camera and a projector, many virtual cameras and projectors are produced on a hemisphere with uniform density to synthesize a hemispherical aperture. In such an optical device, high frequency illumination can be focused at a particular depth in the scene to visualize only the depth with descattering. Then, the observed views are factorized into masking, attenuation, and texture terms to enhance visualization when obstacles are present. Experiments using a prototype system show that only the particular depth is effectively illuminated and hazes by scattering and attenuation can be recovered even when obstacles exist.
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2010-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
Computer vision (Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2010) (lecture notes in computer science, v. 6492)
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Springer
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Mukaigawa, Yasuhiro et al. “Hemispherical Confocal Imaging Using Turtleback Reflector.” Computer Vision – ACCV 2010. Ed. Ron Kimmel, Reinhard Klette, & Akihiro Sugimoto. (Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 6492.) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. 336-349. Copyright © 2011, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
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