Abstract
Light field (LF) enables high-dimensional image data representation
since it can capture spatial and angular information of light rays
simultaneously. The low spatial resolution caused by the limited imaging
ability of the capturing equipment and the trade-off between spatial and
angular resolution greatly affects the quality and application of LF
images. In this letter, we propose an end-to-end LF super-resolution
(SR) method via geometric feature interaction. Firstly, the
low-resolution LF images are stacked in the horizontal and vertical
epipolar plane image (EPI) directions and form 3D VI stacks. Then, these
stacks are put into a dual-branch network, and we alternately perform 3D
convolution on the viewpoint images (VIs) and EPIs by reshaping features
for better feature extraction and interaction. The proposed method can
fully explore the texture information and geometric consistency of the
LF, and super-resolve all VIs at the same time. Experimental results on
both real-world and synthetic LF datasets show that the proposed method
has higher performance than other state-of-the-art methods.