Showing papers by "Marc Levoy published in 1998"

Method and system for light field rendering

Abstract: Described is a simple and robust method and system for generating new views from arbitrary camera positions without depth information or feature matching, simply by combining and resampling the available images. This technique interprets input images as two-dimensional slices of a four dimensional function--the light field. This function completely characterizes the flow of light through unobstructed space in a static scene with fixed illumination. A sampled representation for light fields allows for both efficient creation and display of inward and outward looking views. Light fields may be created from large arrays of both rendered and digitized image. The latter are acquired with a video camera mounted on a computer-controlled gantry. Once a light field has been created, new views may be constructed in real time by extracting slices in appropriate directions. Also described is a compression system that is able to compress generated light fields by more than a factor of 100:1 with very little loss of fidelity. Issues of antialiasing during creation and resampling during slice extraction are also addressed.