Portable holoscopic 3D camera adaptor for Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Holoscopic 3D imaging (also known as Integral imaging) is a promising technique for capturing full colour spatial images using a single aperture holoscopic 3D camera. It mimics fly's eye technique with a microlens array, which will view the scene at a slightly different angle to its adjacent lens that records three-dimensional information onto two-dimensional surface. To date, holoscopic 3D camera adaptors are designed and prototyped for a large scale SLR cameras. This paper proposes an innovative design solution for prototyping a holoscopic 3D camera adaptor for Raspberry Pi, which is a credit-card-sized single board computer. This proposed method extends utilisation of holoscopic 3D imaging and enables the expansion of the technology for various trends applications such as security, medical, entertainment, inspection, autonomous and robotics systems where 3D depth sensing and measurement are concern.