Compressive-sensing cameras are an important new class of sensors that have different design constraints than standard cameras. Surprisingly, little work has explored the relationship between compressive-sensing measurements and differential image motion. We show that, given modest constraints on the measurements and image motions, we can omit the computationally expensive compressive-sensing reconstruction step and obtain more accurate motion estimates with much less computation time. We also formulate a compressive-sensing reconstruction problem that incorporates known image motion and show that this method outperforms the state-of-the-art in compressive-sensing video reconstruction.

Physical Camera

We added a tiling of lenticular arrays to the front of a standard video camera to create an imager with long, thin receptive fields. This is just one of many possible ways of constructing an integral pixel camera.

Publications

• Compressive Sensing and Differential Image-Motion Estimation at ICASSP 2010
• Our WUSTL Technical Report has most of what is in the ICASSP 2010 paper and few extra experiments. It also shows how we modified a standard video camera to make a camera with integral-pixels.

Press Coverage

• an excerpt from a post on the popular compressive sensing blog, nuit-blanche:
  

  Aha!, a new cheaply made compressive sensing hardware, an Integral Pixel Camera that can evaluate Differential Image Motion. I like it already especially since it obtains parameters for the field of view without performing an image reconstruction.

People

• Nathan Jacobs
• Stephen Schuh
• Robert Pless