lecture 22: cameras & lenses iii...enlarged to a 5”×7” (12 cm × 16.5 cm) print and viewed...
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Computer Graphics and Imaging UC Berkeley CS184/284A, Spring 2017
Lecture 22:
Cameras & Lenses III
Depth of Field
Ren NgCS184/284A
Depth of Field
• Depth of field is the range of object depths that are rendered with acceptable sharpness in an image
From London and Upton
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Circle of Confusion for Depth of Field
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from subjects closer than “infinity”converge at a point in the focal plane.
Circle of confusionSince all lenses contain a certain amountof spherical aberration and astigmatism,they cannot perfectly converge rays from asubject point to form a true image point(i.e., an infinitely small dot with zero area).In other words, images are formed from acomposite of dots (not points) having acertain area, or size. Since the imagebecomes less sharp as the size of thesedots increases, the dots are called “circlesof confusion.” Thus, one way of indicatingthe quality of a lens is by the smallest dotit can form, or its “minimum circle ofconfusion.” The maximum allowable dotsize in an image is called the “permissiblecircle of confusion.”
Permissible circle of confusionThe largest circle of confusion which stillappears as a “point” in the image. Imagesharpness as sensed by the human eye isclosely related to the sharpness of theactual image and the “resolution” ofhuman eyesight. In photography, imagesharpness is also dependent on the degreeof image enlargement or projectiondistance and the distance from which theimage is viewed. In other words, inpractical work it is possible to determinecertain “allowances” for producing imageswhich, although actually blurred to acertain degree, still appear sharp to theobserver. For 35mm single lens reflexcameras, the permissible circle of confusionis about 1/1000~1/1500 the length of thefilm diagonal, assuming the image isenlarged to a 5”×7” (12 cm × 16.5 cm)print and viewed from a distance of 25~30cm/0.8~1 ft. EF lenses are designed toproduce a minimum circle of confusion of0.035 mm, a value on which calculationsfor items such as depth of field are based.
Depth of fieldThe area in front of and behind a focusedsubject in which the photographed imageappears sharp. In other words, the depth ofsharpness to the front and rear of thesubject where image blur in the focalplane falls within the limits of thepermissible circle of confusion. Depth offield varies according to the lens’ focallength, aperture value and shootingdistance, so if these values are known, arough estimate of the depth of field can becalculated using the following formulas:
Front depth of field = d·F·a2/(f2 + d·F·a)Rear depth of field = d·F·a2/(f2 — d·F·a)f: focal length F: F number d: minimumcircle of confusion diametera: subject distance (distance from thefirst principal point to subject)
If the hyperfocal distance is known, thefollowing formulas can also be used:In general photography, depth of field ischaracterised by the following attributes:! Depth of field is deep at short focallengths, shallow at long focal lengths." Depth of field is deep at smallapertures, shallow at large apertures.# Depth of field is deep at far shootingdistances, shallow at close shootingdistances.$ Front depth of field is shallowerthan rear depth of field.
Depth of focusThe area in front of and behind the focalplane in which the image can bephotographed as a sharp image. Depth offocus is the same on both sides of theimage plane (focal plane) and can bedetermined by multiplying the minimum
circle of confusion by the F number,regardless of the lens focal length. Withmodern autofocus SLR cameras, focusingis performed by detecting the state offocus in the image plane (focal plane)using a sensor which is both opticallyequivalent (1:1 magnification) andpositioned out of the focal plane, andautomatically controlling the lens to bringthe subject image within the depth offocus area.
Hyperfocal distanceUsing the depth of field principle, as alens is gradually focused to farthersubject distances, a point will eventuallybe reached where the far limit of therear depth of field will be equivalent to“infinity.” The shooting distance at thispoint, i,e., the closest shooting distanceat which “infinity” falls within the depthof field, is called the hyperfocal distance.The hyperfocal distance can bedetermined as follows:
Thus, by presetting the lens to thehyperfocal distance, the depth of field willextend from a distance equal to half thehyperfocal distance to infinity. Thismethod is useful for presetting a largedepth of field and taking snapshotswithout having to worry about adjustingthe lens focus, especially when using aw i d e - a n g l elens. (Forexample, whenthe EF 20mmf/2.8 USM is setto f/16 and thes h o o t i n gdistance is setto the hyperfocal distance of ap-proximately 0.7m/2.3ft, all subjects withina range of approximately 0.4m/1.3ft fromthe camera to infinity will be in focus.)
Figure-15 Relationship Between the Ideal FocalPoint and the Permissible Circle ofConfusion and Depth of Field
Figure-16 Depth of Field and Depth of Focus
Photo-1 Hyperfocal Length SetCondtion
Hyperfocaldistance =
f2 f: focal length F: F number
d•F number d: minimum circle of confusion diameter
Figure-17 Relationship Between Depth ofFocus and Aperture
Lens Ideal focal point
Depth of focus
Front depthof field Rear depth
of field
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hyperfocal distance +�shooting distancehyperfocal distance ×shooting distance�
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Depth of field Depth of focus
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[Canon, EF Lens Work III]
Set circle of confusion as the maximum permissible blur spot on the image plane that will appear sharp under final viewing conditions
• For printed photographs from 35mm film, 0.025mm (on negative) is typical
• For digital image sensors, 1 pixel is typical (e.g. 1.4 micron for phones)
• Larger if intended for viewing at web resolution, or if lens is poor
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Depth of Field
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DOF Demonstration
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178/applets/dof.html
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Hyperfocal Distance
The focus distance that maximizes the depth of field (such that infinity is at limit of acceptable sharpness)
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Other Focus / DOF Situations to Consider
• How does sensor size affect defocus blur and DOF?
• E.g. consider cell phone vs 35mm format sensors
• For a given lens & f-stop, how does moving closer/further from the subject (and adjusting focus onto subject) affect defocus / DOF of other objects?
• In 1:1 macro, does focal length affect DOF?
• What is the lens-sensor separation for hyperfocal condition, for full-resolution viewing vs web-resolution viewing?
If you understand these, you understand lenses!
Bokeh
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Bokeh
Bokeh is the shape and quality of out-of-focus blur
• For small, out-of-focus lights, bokeh takes on the shape of the lens aperture
M Yashna, flickr, 40m
m f/3.0
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Bokeh
Heart-shaped bokeh?
diyphotography.net
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BokehDino Q
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, f/0.95
Why does the bokeh vary across the image?
The Psychological Effect of Shallow Depth of Field
Dr. Joanne Liu, the president of Doctors without Borders, spoke on 10/7/15 in Geneva. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Hillary Clinton spoke during a campaign event at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on 10/7/15. Scott Morgan/Reuters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5cbk0xVnzA
Exposure
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Exposure
• H = T x E
• Exposure = time x irradiance
• Exposure time (T)
• Controlled by shutter (discussed last lecture)
• Irradiance (E)
• Power of light falling on a unit area of sensor
• Controlled by f-stop (aperture and focal length)
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Exposure Controls in Photography
Aperture size
• Change the f-stop by opening / closing the aperture (if camera has iris control)
Shutter speed
• Change the duration the sensor pixels integrate light
ISO gain
• Change the amplification (analog and/or digital) between sensor values and digital image values
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Constant Exposure: F-Stop vs Shutter Speed
1.4 2.0 2.8 4.0 5.6 8.0 11.0 16.0 22.0 32.0
1/500 1/250 1/125 1/60 1/30 1/15 1/8 1/4 1/2 1
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Example: these pairs of aperture and shutter speed give equivalent exposure
If the exposure is too bright/dark, may need to adjust f-stop and/or shutter up/down.
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f / 41/125 sec
f / 111/15 sec
f / 321/2 sec
Constant Exposure: Depth of Field vs Motion Blur
• Photographers must trade off depth of field and motion blur for moving subjects
Shallow Depth of Field Can Create a Stronger Image
From Peterson, Understanding Exposure 200mm, f/4, 1/1000 (left) and f/11, 1/125 (right)
Motion Blur Can Help Tell The Story
From Peterson, Understanding Exposure 1/60, f/5.6, 180mm
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Fastest Photography Lens F-Stop?
Hari Subramanyam, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dementedjesus/
Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 ASPH Lens
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ISO (Gain)
Third variable for exposure Film: trade sensitivity for grain Digital: trade sensitivity for noise
• Multiply signal before analog-to-digital conversion
• Linear effect (ISO 200 needs half the light as ISO 100)
More on this in a later lecture.
Real Compound Lenses
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Real Refraction Through A Lens Is Not Ideal – Aberrations
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Real Lenses vs Ideal Thin Lenses
• Theoretical abstraction • Assume all rays refract at a
plane & converge to a point • Quick and intuitive
calculation of main imaging effects
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ilovephotography.com
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Modern Lens Designs Are Highly Complexilovephotography.com
Photographic lens cross section
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Modern Lens Designs Are Highly Complex
4 element mobile phone lens (on 24x36mm sensor)
ilovehatephoto.com
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Modern Lens Designs Are Highly Complex[Apple]
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Modern Lens Designs Are Highly ComplexZeiss flickr.com
account
Microscope objective
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Example Lens Formula: Double Gauss
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Ray Tracing Through Real Lens Designs
From Kolb, Mitchell and Hanrahan (1995)
200 mm telephoto
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35 mm wide-angle
16 mm fisheye
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Ray Tracing Through Real Lens Designs
200 mm telephoto
Notice shallow depth of field (out of focus background)
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Ray Tracing Through Real Lens Designs
16 mm fisheye
Notice distortion in the corners (straight lines become curved)
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Ray Tracing Real Lens Designs
Monte Carlo approach
• At every sensor pixel, compute integral of rays incident on pixel area arriving from all paths through the lens
Algorithm (for a pixel)
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• Trace a ray through from x’ to x’’, trace refractions through lens elements until it misses the next element (kill ray) or exits the lens (path trace through the scene)
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Radiometry for Tracing Lens Designs
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4 Radiometry and SamplingIn this section we describe how we compute exposure on the filmplane.
4.1 Exposure
Sensor response is a function of exposure, the integral of the irra-diance at a point on the film plane over the time that the shutteris open. If we assume that irradiance is constant over the exposureperiod, and that exposure time is fixed,
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exposure process in physical systems, where the exposure at a pointis dependent upon the shape and movement of the shutter.
In order to compute , we integrate the radiance at overthe solid angle subtended by the exit pupil, which is represented asa disk, as shown in Figure 6.
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where is the axial distance from the film plane to the disk. Thisformula differs from that described by Cook et al., which assumedeach ray has the same weight. It is also important to perform the in-tegral using a disc-shaped exit pupil, rather than a rectangular one.Using a rectangular pupil causes the depth of field to be computedincorrectly, since points not in focus will then have rectangular “cir-cles” of confusion on the film plane.
The weighting in the irradiance integral leads to variation in irra-diance across the film plane due to the lens system. There are twosimple analytical ways to estimate this effect: the law and thedifferential form factor to a disk.
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where is the f-number of the lens. Equation (7) is the onemost often found in optics texts, while (8) appears in manyphotographic texts. Note that both assume a small solid angle.
2. For larger solid angles, a more accurate way to estimate thevariation in irradiance is to compute the differential form fac-tor from a point on the film plane to a disk. This correctly ac-counts for the finite size of the disk, and the variation in angleas we integrate over the disk. This integral may be computedanalytically[4] (an elegant derivation may be found in [8]).
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In real lens systems these analytical formulas overestimate theexposure. This is due to vignetting, the blocking of light by lens el-ements other than the aperture stop when a ray passes through thesystem at a large angle to the axis. Vignetting can be a significanteffect in wide-angle lenses and when using a lens at full aperture.Fortunately, the ray tracing algorithm described in the last sectionaccounts for this blockage, and hence computes the exposure cor-rectly.
Figure 7 compares the irradiance computed by tracing raysthrough the lens system pointed at a uniform radiance field with
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Spherical Lens & Paraxial Approximation
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Spherical Lens & Paraxial Approximation
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Thick Lens Approximation
Approximate a complex optical system by a “thick lens” where idealized refraction occurs at two “principal planes”, one each for forward and backward propagation. Characterize lens by just few parameters.
[Smith]
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Things to Remember
Effect Cause Field of view Sensor size, focal length Depth of field Aperture, focal length, object dist. Exposure Aperture, shutter, ISOMotion blur ShutterGrain/noise ISO
Pinholes and lenses form perspective images Perspective composition, dolly zoom
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Things to Remember
Ideal thin lenses
• Paraxial approximation, lens maker equation
• Thin lens equation, various applications
• Focusing, defocus blur, depth of field, hyperfocal Ray-tracing optical designs for real compound lenses
• Monte Carlo ray-tracing of train of optical elements
• Defocus blur, optical aberrations, bokeh
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Acknowledgments
Many thanks to Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan, Matt Pharr and Joyce Farrell for presentation resources.
Extra
Auto Focus
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Contrast Detection Autofocus
A target object is imaged through the lens to an image patch on the sensor. The contrast of this image patch is high if the object is in focus, low otherwise. The physical focus of the lens is adjusted until the contrast of this image patch is maximized. Many ways to estimate how in-focus the image patch is: gradient, Sum Modified Laplacian (Nayar), variance…
https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-10/applets/autofocusCD.html
Demo (Levoy, Willet, Adams)
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Phase Detection Autofocus
Ray bundles from a target object converge to points at different depths in the camera depending on the lens focus. In a phase detection AF system ray bundles passing through different portions of the lens (red and green shown) are brought to focus on separate lenslets with separate AF sensors. Depending on depth of focus point, the ray bundles converge to different positions on their respective AF sensors (see interactive demo). A certain spacing (disparity) between these images is “in focus” https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-10/applets/autofocusPD.html
Demo (Levoy, Willet, Adams)
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Phase Detection AF Used in DSLRs
• Distance between phase-detect images correlates to distance in focus to target object (allows “jumping” to the right focus)
• Separate AF units cannot be used with “live view” or video recording
[Canon]
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Phase Detection Pixels Embedded in Sensor
• Modern image sensors have small pixels, and may embed phase detection pixels directly into sensor image arrays
Canon