Patent ID: 9569853
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for processing light field images of a three-dimensional scene, the method implemented on a computer system and comprising: accessing an (image,view) domain representation of the light field images of the three-dimensional scene, wherein the (image,view) domain representation of the light field images is a representation of the light field images as a function of (image) and (view) dimensions; applying a scale-depth transform to transform the (image,view) domain representation to an (image, scale, depth) domain representation, wherein the (image,scale,depth) domain representation is a representation of the light field images as a function of (image), (scale) and (depth) dimensions and the scale-depth transform is based on a kernel that is two-dimensional in the (image) domain; and processing the (image,scale,depth) domain representation of the three-dimensional scene, wherein processing the (image,scale,depth) domain representation comprises at least one of (a) estimating depth in the three-dimensional scene based on processing the (image,scale,depth) domain representation or (b) extracting three-dimensional features in the three-dimensional scene based on processing the (image, scale, depth) domain representation.