Image-Registration Method and Multi-Focus Camera for Multi-Focus Image Processing

Abstract

We describe an image-registration method and a camera system for multi-focus image processing. We also describe a novel method for high-speed generation_ of arbitrarily focused images using graphic accelerator. The registration method uses global and local registration. The former corrects for differences in the displacement and scale between acquired images by using a hierarchical block-matching technique; the latter corrects for local deformation due to lens distortion. The developed camera can capture three differently focused images simultaneously for the same scene, so that, we can generate an arbitrarily focused image for dynamic scene. Finally, we show example motion images with an arbitrary focus generated from two differently focused image sequences captured by the proposed camera.