PlenoptiSign: an optical design tool for plenoptic imaging

TL;DR

PlenoptiSign is a Python software tool that aids in designing and optimizing plenoptic imaging systems by modeling how optical parameters influence depth measurement capabilities.

Contribution

The paper introduces PlenoptiSign, a novel optical design software that incorporates recent findings to assist in the development of plenoptic imaging systems.

Findings

Provides a computational tool for optical system design

Helps predict depth plane locations based on system parameters

Facilitates experimental and prototyping stages of plenoptic systems

Abstract

Plenoptic imaging enables a light-field to be captured by a single monocular objective lens and an array of micro lenses attached to an image sensor. Metric distances of the light-field's depth planes remain unapparent prior to acquisition. Recent research showed that sampled depth locations rely on the parameters of the system's optical components. This paper presents PlenoptiSign, which implements these findings as a Python software package to help assist in an experimental or prototyping stage of a plenoptic system.