Fast-zoom and high-resolution sparse compound-eye camera based on dual-end collaborative optimization

Due to the limitations of spatial bandwidth product and data transmission bandwidth, the field of view, resolution, and imaging speed constrain each other in an optical imaging system. Here, a fast-zoom and high-resolution sparse compound-eye camera (CEC) based on dual-end collaborative optimization is proposed, which provides a cost-effective way to break through the trade-off among the field of view, resolution, and imaging speed. In the optical end, a sparse CEC based on liquid lenses is designed, which can realize large-field-of-view imaging in real time, and fast zooming within 5 ms. In the computational end, a disturbed degradation model driven super-resolution network (DDMDSR-Net) is proposed to deal…