Abstract
In this paper, we present lossless compression of elemental images in photon-counting integral imaging. In order to verify the performance of the compression method applied to low light level three-dimensional (3D) integral imaging, we compute the correlation coefficient and peak to mean square error (PSNR) as metrics for 3D scene reconstruction integrity. We show quantitatively via experiments that a considerable compression of the elemental images in photon-counting integral imaging may be achievable without significant loss in the performance in terms of correlation and PSNR metrics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on applying lossless compression algorithms in photon-counting 3D computational integral imaging.
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