Quality evaluation of light fields

The light field (LF) as an immersive imaging technology has received significant attention from both academia and industry in the last decade. LF enables a wide variety of applications in computer vision and computer graphics domain. Due to its novel representation it has unique challenges in the imaging pipeline. These challenges render the quality assessment of the LF content a necessity. In this chapter, various aspects regarding the LF quality assessment are discussed, including LF-related distortion characteristics, subjective user studies, and objective quality metrics. The chapter provides an overview of the current state in LF quality assessment.