New results on the Plenoptic 2.0 camera

The Plenoptic camera, a digital realization of Lippmann´s ¿Integral Photography¿ ideas, was introduced in 1992 by Adelson as an approach to solve computer vision problems. Recently, an improved version called Plenoptic 2.0 camera has been independently proposed by Ng, Fife, Lumsdaine, and others. The important part about it is the much higher spatial resolution. In this paper we describe the two different focusing modes of this new camera, image rendering for it, as well as methods for capture extended modes at high resolution, including HDR, multispectral color, polarization, superresolution, and others. These are applicable only to Plenoptic 2.0 camera, which fact makes it unique. A live demo of the camera will be shown.