Development of Prototype Autostereoscopic Imaging Systems and Applications

In this thesis, prototype 3D imaging systems are developed regarding the capturing and reproduction of 3D scenes based on Integral Photography (IP) technique, for both synthetic and real 3D scenes. Regarding the capturing of synthetic 3D scenes, an IP generator is designed based on computer simulation, by exact modeling of all the necessary optical components of a single stage IP capturing system. The simulation produces high quality photorealistic IP images with increased depth of field based on ray tracing techniques and offers the ability of reproducing the original 3D scene using an appropriate microlens array. Moreover, an extension to Integral Videography is given. Regarding the capturing of real 3D scenes, a portable IP capturing system of real 3D scenes with depth control is designed using a medium format camera along with an appropriate microlens array of high spatial sampling frequency.