Content-adaptive Lenticular Prints
Publication
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013)
Authors
James Tompkin, Simon Heinzle, Jan Kautz, Wojciech Matusik
Abstract
Lenticular prints are a popular medium for producing automultiscopic glasses-free 3D images. The light field emitted by such prints has a fixed spatial and angular resolution. We increase both perceived angular and spatial resolution by modifying the lenslet array to better match the content of a given light field. Our optimization algorithm analyzes the input light field and computes an optimal lenslet size, shape, and arrangement that best matches the input light field given a set of output parameters. The resulting emitted light field shows higher detail and smoother motion parallax compared to fixed-size lens arrays. We demonstrate our technique using rendered simulations and by 3D printing lens arrays, and we validate our approach in simulation with a user study.
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Project Website
http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/ContentAdaptiveLenticularPrints/