A curated list of awesome light field resources.
- Light Fields and Computational Imaging - Marc Levoy
- Light Field Rendering - Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan.
- The Lumigraph - Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen.
- The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision - Edward H. Adelson, James R. Bergen.
- Standford Spherical Gantry - Used in the Digital Michelangelo project.
- OTOY's Motorized Pan/Tilt Head and Offset Camera - Captures a spherical light field.
- High Performance Imaging Using Arrays Of Inexpensive Cameras - Bennett Wilburn. Describes the 100-camera reconfigurable array built at Stanford.
- The Panoptic Camera - Hemispherical array from EPFL.
- Design and Implementation of Multi-camera Systems Distributed over a Spherical Geometry - Summary poster of the EPFL hemispherical array.
- Light Field Photography with a Hand-held Plenoptic Camera - Ren Ng, Marc Levoy, Mathieux Brédif, Gene Duval, Mark Horowitz, Pat Hanrahan.
- The Standard Plenoptic Camera - Theoretical background on plenoptic cameras.
- Lytro - A manufacturer of plenoptic cameras.
- Raytrix - A manufacturer of plenoptic cameras focused on industrial applications.
- Please refer to the seminal papers for the classic two-plane parameterization.
- Uniformly Sampled Light Fields - Emilio Camahort, Apostolos Lerios, Don Fussell. This paper introduces the Two-Sphere Parameterization (2SP), the Sphere-Plane Parameterization (SPP) and associated data structures for storage and retrieval.
- Rendering of Spherical Light Field - Insung Ihm, Sanghoon Park, Rae Kyoung Lee. This paper introduces the Sphere-Sphere Parameterization: one positional sphere and many small directional spheres.
- Unstructured Lumigraph Rendering - Chris Buehler, Michael Bosse Leonard McMillan, Steven Gortler, Michael Cohen. This paper presents the basic challenges of unstructured light field rendering and describes a strategy for real time rendering.
- Unstructured Light Fields - Abe Davis, Marc Levoy, Fredo Durand. This paper presents an approach to capturing a light field using a hand-held video camera, estimating camera poses using fiducial markers or scene features.
- Fast (Spherical) Light Field Rendering & Per-Pixel Depth - Severin Todt, Christof Rezk-Salama, Andreas Kolb. This paper describes per-pixel depth correction of rays.
- Surface Camera Light Field Rendering - Jingyi Yu, Leonard McMillan, Steven Gortler.
- Plenoptic Sampling - Jin-Xiang Chai, Xin Tong Shing-Chow Chan, Heung-Yeung Shum.
- On the Number of Samples Needed in Light Field Rendering With Constant-depth Assumption - Whouchen Lin, Heung-Yeung Shum.
- Spatio-Angular Resolution Tradeoff in Integral Photography - Todor Georgeiv, Ke Colin Zheng, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Shree Nayar, Chintan Intwala.
- Rendering Gigaray Light Fields - C. Birklbauer, S. Opelt, O. Bimber. Presents a caching framework.
- Dynamically reparameterized light fields - Aaron Isaksen, Leonard McMillan, Steven J. Gortler. This paper uses a planar proxy geometry to refocus the rays, and describes a related rendering algorithm to accelerate the synthesis of new views.
- 1997 - Gortler - Time Critical Lumigraph Rendering
- Lightshop - Interactive Light Field Manipulation and Rendering
- How Do People Edit Light Fields?