Integral imaging reconstruction system based on the human eye viewing mechanism

Abstract

For integral stereo imaging systems based on lens arrays, the cross-mixing of erroneous light rays between adjacent lenses seriously affects the quality of the reconstructed light field. In this paper, we proposed a light field reconstruction method based on the human eye viewing mechanism, which incorporates simplified human eye imaging into the integral imaging system. First, the light field model for specified viewpoint is established, and the distribution of the light source for each viewpoint is accurately calculated for the EIA generation algorithm of fixed viewpoint. Second, according to the ray tracing algorithm in this paper, non-overlapping EIA based on the human eye viewing mechanism is designed to suppress the amount of crosstalk rays fundamentally. The actual viewing clarity is improved with the same reconstructed resolution. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The SSIM value is higher than 0.93, which verifies that the viewing angle range is increased to 62°.