3D Imaging Without A Lens

A hobbyist known as okooptics extends an earlier lensless-camera project by capturing 3D depth information using a Raspberry Pi camera with only a piece of Scotch tape as a diffuser instead of a lens. By weighting the point spread function used in the deconvolution math, directional bias can be introduced that mimics viewing the scene from a slightly different angle, effectively recovering stereo-like 3D data from what initially looks like blurry noise. The technique builds on prior work explaining the underlying optics and computational math, with references to academic research on the subject.

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