Professor Pier Luigi Dragotti

Imperial College London

Plenoptic Processing and Lightfield Microscopy

.The goal is to understand the nature of the data in light-field systems particularly in terms of structure and coherence. Specifically, we study the extraction of coherent regions and occlusion boundaries which is an important issue in numerous plenoptic base processing applications. We focus in particular on light field microscopy for neuroscience.


Overview Talk (45MB)
Demo on Light-field Interpolation

Main publications:

  • P. Song P, H. Verinaz Jadan, C. Howe, P. Quicke, A. Foust and P.L. Dragotti, 3D localization for light-field microscopy via convolutional sparse coding on epipolar images, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Vol:6, pages:1017-1032, 2020.
  • C. Gilliam, P.L. Dragotti and M. Brookes, On the spectrum of the plenoptic function, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 23(2), pp. 502-516, February 2014.
  • J. Pearson M. Brookes and P.L. Dragotti, Plenoptic layer-based Modelling for Image Based Rendering, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol.22(9), pp.3405-3419, September 2013.  
  • A. Gelman, P.L. Dragotti and V. Velisavljevic, Multiview Image Coding using Depth Layers and an Optimized Bit Allocation, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol.21(9), pp. 4092-4105, September 2012. 
  •  A. Gelman, P.L. Dragotti and J.Berent, Layer-Based Sparse Representation of Multiview Images, Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, March 2012.



  • Research Areas

    Wavelet theory.
    Sampling theory.
    Sparse Signal Processing
    Computational Imaging
    Data-Driven Image processing and Image Super-Resolution.