Novel Methods for Manipulating and Combining Light Fields

A dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Science and the Committee of Graduate Studies of Stanford University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosphy.

Billy Chen
September 2006

Dissertation

Movies

Chapter 3: Light Field Deformation

Global twist of the toy Terra Cotta Warrior light field
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Multiple deformations on a fish and teddy bear light field
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Chapter 4: LightShop: A System for Manipulating Light Fields

Relighting the right actor's face in the wedding
composite light field
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(movie showing different views [AVI] 5.9 MB)
Turning the actors' heads to change their pose
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(movie showing different views [AVI] 3.6 MB)
A video showing the toy-ship light field. [AVI]
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A dog-fight with a light field of a toy ship [AVI]
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Appendix B: Projector-based Light Field Segmentation

Animation showing the images in a coaxial light field
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Animation showing the images in a labeling light field
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Appendix E: Light Field Hacks

Shadow-casting from light fields
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