Annular Computational Imaging: Capture Clear Panoramic Images through Simple Lens
Qi Jiang, Hao Shi, Lei Sun, Shaohua Gao, Kailun Yang, Kaiwei Wang

TL;DR
This paper introduces an Annular Computational Imaging framework that enhances the image quality of lightweight Panoramic Annular Lenses using a physics-informed neural network and a novel simulation pipeline, enabling high-quality panoramic imaging with simple lens designs.
Contribution
It presents a new computational imaging approach for PALs, including a simulation pipeline, a physics-informed neural network, and a dataset, to surpass optical limitations in lightweight panoramic lenses.
Findings
Achieved state-of-the-art panoramic image restoration results.
Demonstrated the effectiveness of the simulation pipeline across design parameters.
Validated the approach on a simple 3-lens PAL design.
Abstract
Panoramic Annular Lens (PAL) composed of few lenses has great potential in panoramic surrounding sensing tasks for mobile and wearable devices because of its tiny size and large Field of View (FoV). However, the image quality of tiny-volume PAL confines to optical limit due to the lack of lenses for aberration correction. In this paper, we propose an Annular Computational Imaging (ACI) framework to break the optical limit of light-weight PAL design. To facilitate learning-based image restoration, we introduce a wave-based simulation pipeline for panoramic imaging and tackle the synthetic-to-real gap through multiple data distributions. The proposed pipeline can be easily adapted to any PAL with design parameters and is suitable for loose-tolerance designs. Furthermore, we design the Physics Informed Image Restoration Network (PI2RNet) considering the physical priors of panoramic imaging…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Vision and Imaging · Optical measurement and interference techniques · Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
