Computational Imaging: Combining Optics, Computation and Perception

Abstract

This thesis presents contributions on the different stages of the imaging pipeline,from capture to display, and including interaction as well; we embrace all of themunder the concept of Computational Imaging. The addressed topics are diverse,but the driving force and common thread has been the conviction that a combinationof improved optics and hardware (optics), computation and signal processing(computation), and insights from how the human visual system works (perception)are needed for and will lead to significant advances in the imaging pipeline. Inparticular, we present contributions in the areas of: coded apertures for defocusdeblurring, reverse tone mapping, disparity remapping for automultiscopic andstereoscopic displays, visual comfort when viewing stereo content, interactionparadigms for light field editing, and femto-photography and transient imaging.