Lenselet image compression scheme based on subaperture images streaming

Abstract

Plenoptic cameras capture the light field in a scene with a single shot and produce lenselet images. From a lenselet image, light field can be reconstructed, with which we can render images with different viewpoints and focal length. Because of large volume data, high efficient image compression scheme for storage and transmission is urgent. Containing 4D light field information, lenselet images have much more redundant information than traditional 2D images. In this paper, we propose a subaperture images streaming scheme to compress lenselet images, in which rotation scan mapping is adopted to further improve compression efficiency. The experiment results show our approach can efficient compress the redundancy in lenselet images and outperform traditional image compression method.