Method for Computer-Generating Holograms from a Small Number of Multi-View Images Captured under Natural Light

Abstract

Holography is an ideal 3D display technique that displays beautiful 3D images. However, it presents some difficulties, one of which is how to capture images under natural light. The holographic stereogram solves this problem, but it requires a large number of pictures that are captured from various directions with narrow durations. Therefore, this paper proposes a new capturing method that uses a small number of multi-view images and a method that creates holograms from the images. The methods are based on estimating the three-dimensional shape of the target objects and generating intermediate images. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is confirmed by computer simulations and optical experiments, which show that the reconstructed images are the same quality as holographic stereograms.