• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.905-909
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• 2006

Recently various types of curved integral imaging system have been reported for improvement of viewing angle. However, the optical implementation has been limited to only unidirectional system. In this paper, we propose a curved integral imaging (CII) system with additional use of a large-aperture ten in conventional II system and explain a generation scheme of elemental images in the proposed system. The proposed system provides full-directional curvature effect and has simple structure due to the use of well-fabricated flat devices. For the full-directional-curved II system, we perform my analysis based on Johns matrix and synthesize novel elemental images. To show the usefulness of synthesized elemental images, preliminary experiments were performed and some experimental results were presented.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.535-540
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• 2006

집적 영상(Integral Imaging) 시스템은 관찰자가 특수안경의 착용 없이 육안으로 3 차원 영상을 볼 수 있는 무안경식 양안시차 디스플레이 방식 중 하나로, 수직, 수평 시차와 총천연색의 영상을 제공한다. 집적영상 시스템은 3 차원 정보를 2 차원 엘리멘탈 이미지 (Elemental image)의 형태로 저장하는데, 엘리멘탈 이미지는 조금씩 다른 방향에서 제한된 크기로 촬영된 이미지이다. 엘리멘탈 이미지는 컴퓨터 그래픽으로 만들어질 수도 있는데, 이를 이용하는 집적 영상 방식을 CG 직접 영상 시스템이라 한다. 이와 같이 컴퓨터 계산에 의해 엘리멘탈 이미지를 얻는 과정을 이미지 매핑 (Image mapping)이라 부른다. 이제까지 제안된 이미지 매핑 방식에는 점대점 (Point to Point), MVR (Multi-Viewpoint Rendering), PGR (Parallel Group Rendering) 이 있다. 그러나 이런 방식들은 계산량이 많거나 렌즈 어레이 개수의 증가에 의해 속도에 영향을 받는 단점이 있어, 아직 가상현실 같은 실시간 CG 응용 분야에 사용하기 어려운 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 VVR (Viewpoint Vector Rendering)이라는 기존의 방법과 비교해 향상된 새로운 이미지 매핑 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 VVR 개념을 자세히 설명한 후 VVR 을 사용한 집적 영상 시스템을 구현하여 MVR 방법과 비교 분석한 실험결과와 개선되어야 할 방향을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.10C
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• pp.829-835
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• 2008

Recently, 3D integral imaging system, which is well known as an auto-stereoscopic 3D display method, has been gaining great attention amongst researchers. The integral imaging is a promising 3D display technology since it is able to deliver continuous viewing points, full parallax, and full color view to the observers in space. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive 3D integral imaging system using a single camera. The user interface is implemented by adding a camera in the conventional integral imaging system. To show the possibility of the proposed system, we implement the optical setup and present the preliminary results. To our best knowledge, this is the first time to study an interactive 3D integral imaging.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.1019-1022
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• 2012

Integral imaging is a promising technology for 3D imaging and display. Many parameters affect the performance of 3D integral imaging systems. Enhanced system performance is acquired by optimization of these system parameters with respect to defined performance metrics. In this paper, we present an approach to optimize the performance of 3D integral imaging system in terms of performance metrics under fixed resource constraints. In this analysis, system parameters such as lens numerical aperture, pitch between image sensors, the number of image sensors, the pixel size, and the number of pixels are determined to optimize performance metrics. Wave optics is utilized to describe the imaging process.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1767-1772
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• 2006

Computer-generated integral imaging system is an auto-stereoscopic display system that users can see and feel the stereoscopic images when they see the pre-rendered elemental images through a lens array. The process of constructing elemental images using computer graphics is called image mapping. Viewpoint vector rendering (VVR) method is one of the image mapping algorithm specially designed for real-time graphics applications, which would not be affected by the size of the rendered objects or the number of elemental lenses used in the integral imaging system. This paper describes a new VVR framework which improved its rendering performance considerably. It also compares the previous VVR implementation with the new VVR work utilizing GPU and shows that newer implementation shows pretty big improvements over the old method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2664-2669
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• 2011

We proposed a new method to improve the resolution of far object image in curving effective integral imaging system. Basically, the curving effective integral imaging(CEII) system can improve the resolution of the reconstructed images with an increased sampling rate of elemental images. However, in the case when an object located far from the lenslet array is picked up, the low resolution of the reconstructed images of the far object has been a primary problem because the sampling rate is very low. In order to solve this drawback, by using the direct pixel mapping(DPM) method the EIA picked up from a far object is transformed into a new EIA that virtually looks like the EIA picked up from the object originally located close to the lenslet array. From this new EIA, highly resolution-enhanced images of far object could be reconstructed in the CEII system. To show the feasibility of the proposed method, simulation results are compared with the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.503-506
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• 2008

The integral imaging is a promising 3D display technology since it is able to deliver continuous viewing points, full parallax, and full color view to the observers in space. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive 3D integral imaging system using a single camera. The user interface is implemented by adding a camera in the conventional integral imaging system. To show the possibility of the proposed system, we implement the optical setup and present the preliminary results

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.369-375
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a 2D-3D convertible display system having a background of full-parallax integral images. The proposed system is composed of integral imaging system and conventional 2D flat display and is able to operate either 3D mode or 2D mode. In 3D mode, the 3D image is generated by combining the 2D main image with the background image based on integral imaging. In 2D mode, the integral imaging system plays a role as the back-light of 2D flat display and then 2D image is observed through 2D flat display. To show the usefulness of the proposed system, we carry out the preliminary experiments and present the successful experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.1012-1014
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• 2012

Integral imaging is considered as a next-generation 3D display which can display 3d imaging in space using lens array. The performance of integral imaging systems depends on several factors including display panel, lens array, imaging devices and so on. In this paper, we develop a unifying framework to evaluate the resolution of integral imaging systems under fixed resource constraints. The proposed framework enables one to optimize the system performance. To show the feasibility of the proposed method, we carry out Monte Carlo simulations based on this framework and present the results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11B
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• pp.1311-1319
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• 2009

Microscopic specimen was captured by an integral imaging microscope and displayed as a three-dimensional image by an integral imaging display system. We applied the generalized relationship between pickup and display using two different lens arrays to our integral imaging microscope and display system. In order to display three-dimensional microscopic image, scaling of the captured elemental images is required. We analyzed the effect of the scaling coefficient in terms of the distortion of the displayed three-dimensional image and the loss of the captured elemental images. In our experiment, microscopic specimen is picked up by an integral imaging microscope having $125{\mu}m$ elemental lens pitch and displayed as three-dimensional image by an integral imaging display system having 1mm elemental lens pitch. The scaling coefficient was chosen to minimize the elemental image loss.