Analysis of synthetic aperture integral imaging

We present the simulation results on the analysis of Synthetic Aperture Integral Imaging (SAII) technique and its sensitivity to pickup position uncertainty. SAII is a passive three dimensional imaging technique based on multiple image acquisitions with different perspective of the scene under incoherent or natural illumination. In practical SAII applications, there is always an uncertainty associated with the position at which each sensor captures the elemental image. We present simulation results of image degradation in terms of Mean Square Error (MSE) metric. We also show an inverse relationship between the reconstruction distance and degradation metric.