A plenoptic camera captures the 4D radiance about a scene. Recent practical solutions mount a
microlens array on top of a commodity SLR to directly acquire these rays. However, they suffer from low resolution as hundreds
of thousands of views need to be captured in a single shot. In this paper, we develop a simple but effective technique
for improving the image resolution of the plenoptic camera by maneuvering the demosaicing process. We first show
that the traditional solution by demosaicing each individual microlens image and then blending them for view synthesis
is suboptimal. In particular, this demosaicing process often suffers from aliasing artifacts, and it damages high
frequency information recorded by each microlens image hence degrades the image quality. We instead propose to demosaic
the synthesized view at the rendering stage. Specifically, we first transform the radiance to the desired focal
plane and then apply frequency domain plenoptic resampling. A full resolution color filtered image is then created
by performing a 2D integral projection from the reparameterized radiance. Finally, we conduct demosacing to obtain
the color result. We show that our solution can achieve visible resolution enhancement on dynamic refocusing and depth-assisted deep focus rendering.
Comparison of three results with classical approach and our approach. First and second row show shallow depth of field
rendering. The third row shows extended depth of field rendering. (a) Our rendered result. (b) and (c) are enlarged highlighted regions in
(a) with classical approach and our approach respectively.
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