Fast computational integral imaging reconstruction by combined use of spatial filtering and rearrangement of elemental image pixels

• Proposed method is a fast computational integral imaging reconstruction scheme.
• Spatial filtering and pixel rearrangement of elemental image pixels are used.
• It can improve the reconstruction speed and quality.

In this paper, we propose a new fast computational integral imaging reconstruction (CIIR) scheme without the deterioration of the spatial filtering effect by combined use of spatial filtering and rearrangement of elemental image pixels. In the proposed scheme, the elemental image array (EIA) recorded by lenslet array is spatially filtered through the convolution of depth-dependent delta function array for a given depth. Then, the spatially filtered EIA is reconstructed as the 3D slice image using pixels of the elemental image rearrangement technique. Our scheme provides both the fast calculation with the same properties of the conventional CIIR and the improved visual quality of the reconstructed 3D slice image. To verify our scheme, we perform preliminary experiments and compare other techniques.