Abstract

3D imaging has been a hot research topic recently due to a high demand from various applications of security, health, autonomous vehicle and robotics. Yet Stereoscopic 3D imaging is limited due to its principles which mimics the human eye technique thus the camera separation baseline defines amount of 3D depth can be captured. Holoscopic 3D (H3D) Imaging principle also known as integral imaging is based on the “Fly's eye” technique that uses coherent repetition of light to record a true spatial scene using a microlens array which exhibits the complete 3D parallax. As a result, H3D Imaging is a promising advanced 3D imaging technique which pursues the simple form of acquisition using a single aperture 3D camera therefore it is the most suited for scalable digitization, security and autonomous applications. This paper proposes 360-degree holoscopic 3D imaging system design for immersive holoscopic 3D acquisition.

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