Single-Shot 3D Sensing Close to Physical Limits and Information Limits

• Main Author: Willomitzer, Florian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; Optical data processing.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Classical Electrodynamics.

This thesis discusses the physical and information theoretical limits of optical 3D metrology, and, based on these principal considerations, introduces a novel single-shot 3D video camera that works close to these limits. There are serious obstacles for a "perfect" 3D-camera: The author ex...

Table of Contents:

• Preface, Scope of Work and Summary of Results
• Basics
• State of the Art: The Basic Principles of Optical 3D Metrology
• Introducing the Problem
• Solving the Problem with an Additional Source of Information
• Physical and Information Theoretical Limits of the Single-Shot 3D Movie Camera
• Further Improvements of the Single-Shot 3D Movie Camera
• Algorithmic Implementations
• Results
• Comments, Future Prospects and Collection of Ideas
• Summary and Conclusion.