Light-fields of Circular Camera Arrays

The ray structure and sampling properties of different light-field representations inherently determine their use-cases. Currently prevalent linear data structures do not allow for joint processing of light-fields captured from multiple sides of a scene. In this paper, we review and highlight the differences in capturing and reconstruction between light-fields captured with linear and circular camera arrays. We also examine and improve the processing of light-fields captured with circular camera arrays with a focus on their use in reconstructing dense light-fields, by proposing a new resampling technique for circular light-fields. The proposed circular epipolar light-field structure creates a simple sinusoidal relation between the objects of the scene and their curves in the epipolar image, opening the way of efficient reconstruction of circular light-fields.