tb_lf_refocus — 2D typed op

Data kinds: lightfieldimage

Call: fullseye.apply(img, "tb_lf_refocus", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])

Usage

Shift-and-add refocus: the synthetic-aperture image focused at *slope*.

Every view `(v, u) is shifted by (-s*(v - v_c), -s*(u - u_c))` — the

minus undoes the parallax of a point at slope `s` — and the shifted

views are averaged. Points at that slope add coherently and stay sharp;

everything else is smeared by an amount proportional to its slope

difference times the angular baseline. `slope=0` is the plane the array

was already focused on and returns the plain average of the views.

Ground truth it reproduces exactly (pinned in `tests/test_lightfield.py`):

a single-layer field synthesised at slope `s0 and refocused at s0`

with `edge="wrap" and an integer s0` returns the original texture to

5.6e-16; sweeping the slope, the variance of the result peaks at `s0`

(measured exactly on the sweep grid in all 18 texture/slope combinations

listed in the module docstring), and refocusing at `-s0` does *not* —

which is the check that catches a flipped shift sign.

Returns a `(H, W)` 2-D image.

Raises `ValueError`: *lf* not a valid light field, a non-finite or

over-large *slope* (:data:MAX_ABS_SLOPE), unknown *interp* / *edge*.

Typed bridge of the lightfield op `lf_refocus into the 2-D evolution registry: the same implementation, called under the op(v, a, b) convention. This op has no tunable parameter; a and b` are unused.

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• (none yet)

Ops the type connects to (they accept image as input)

identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter

Same category (typed)

tb_points_to_voxel · tb_estimate_point_normals · tb_iss_keypoints · tb_angle_3points · tb_project_points · tb_render_point_depth · tb_statistical_outlier_removal · tb_radius_outlier_removal


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© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.