Light field completion using focal stack propagation

Abstract

Both light field photography and focal stack photography are rapidly becoming more accessible with Lytro's commercial light field cameras and the ever increasing processing power of mobile devices. Light field photography offers the ability of post capturing perspective changes and digital refocusing, but little is available in the way of post-production editing of light field images. We present a first approach for interactive content aware completion of light fields and focal stacks, allowing for the removal of foreground or background elements from a scene.