Fig. 1. Overview of FourierCam. (a) Schematic and prototype of FourierCam. (b) Coding strategy of FourierCam. The real scene is coded by a spatial light modulator (DMD) and integrated during a single exposure of the image sensor. The DMD is spatially divided into coding groups (5×5 coding groups are shown here, marked as CG), and each CG contains multiple coding elements (4×4 coding elements are shown here, marked as CE) to extract the Fourier coefficients of the pixel temporal vector. The Fourier coefficients of different pixel temporal vectors form the temporal spectrum of the scene. (c) Three demonstrative applications of FourierCam: video compression, selective sampling, and trajectory tracking.

Fig. 2. Capturing aperiodic motion video using FourierCam. (a) Illustration of experiment setup and coding pattern on DMD. Each CG contains nine CEs (3×3, ranging from 0 Hz to 80 Hz) to encode the scene. (b) A toy car is used as a target. Top left: static object as ground truth. Top right: coded data captured by FourierCam. Middle left: amplitude of temporal spectrum. Middle right: phase of temporal spectrum. Bottom row: zoom in of middle row. A white-dotted mesh splits into different CGs. (c) A rotating disk with a panda pattern is used as a target. Top left: static object as ground truth. Top right: coded data captured by FourierCam. Middle left: amplitude of temporal spectrum. Middle right: phase of temporal spectrum. Bottom row: zoom in of middle row. A white-dotted mesh splits into different CGs. (d) Three frames from the reconstructed videos of the two scenes in (b) and (c). A yellow-dotted line is shown as reference.

Fig. 3. Capturing periodic motion video using FourierCam. (a) To capture a periodic motion with four frequencies, each CG contains four CEs (2×2) to encode the scene. (b) A rotating disk is used as target. Top left: static object as ground truth. Top right: the zoom-in view of the captured data with and without coding, corresponding to normal slow cameras and FourierCam, respectively. Ordinary slow cameras blur out the details of moving objects while coded structure in FourierCam capture provides sufficient information to reconstruct the video. Bottom: four frames from the reconstructed video. Red-dotted lines are shown in each frame to indicate the direction of the disk.

Fig. 4. Object extraction by FourierCam. (a) Illustration of object extraction. The coding frequencies are based on the spectrum of the objects of interest. In this demonstration, the four rings on the disk are regarded as four objects of interest. Each ring only contains one frequency so that one CE is used in one CG. (b) Left: reference static scene with a disk and a poker card. The disk is rotating when capturing, and the four rings share the same rotating speed. Four right columns: FourierCam captured data for four rings extraction and corresponding results. For each extracted ring, other rings and static poker card are neglected. (c) Results for two identical rings rotating at different speed (1980 and 800 r/min, respectively). FourierCam enables extraction of a specific one out of these two rings.

Fig. 5. Moving object detection and tracking by FourierCam. (a) Only one frequency is needed to encode the scene for moving object detection and tracking. The period of sinusoidal coding signal is equal to the exposure time. Thus, only one CE is contained in each CG. (b) Coded data captured by FourierCam and tracking results. Left column: characters ‘T’, ’H’, ‘U’, ‘EE’ sequentially displayed by a screen with a 0.25 s duration for each. The color indicates the distribution of appearing time. Middle column: results for a displayed spot moving along a heart-shaped trajectory. Right column: results for two spots moving in circular trajectories with different radii. The spots are printed on a rotating disk driven by a motor.

Fig. 6. Phase analysis of the moiré fringe pattern obtained by the phase-shifting moiré method. (a) There are two errors: mismatch and misalignment. (b) Only mismatch error. (c) FourierCam with high-precision correspondence.

Fig. 7. Simulation of FourierCam video reconstruction. (a) Long exposure capture with all frames directly accumulating together, corresponding to a slow camera and the FourierCam encoded capture. The insets show the zoom-in view of the areas pointed by the arrows. (b) In the reconstructed video with 16 Fourier coefficients, the SSIM of each frame keeps stable with an average of 0.9126 and a standard deviation of 0.0107. (c) Three exemplar frames from the ground truth and reconstructed video.

Fig. 8. Quantitative analysis on the performance of FourierCam. (a) Relation between number of acquired Fourier coefficients h and spatial resolution reduction L of FourierCam. (b) Comparison of reconstructed frames with different numbers of acquired Fourier coefficients, corresponding to point 1 to point 4 in (a).

Fig. 9. Fourier domain properties of periodic and aperiodic signals. The (a) periodic signal has a (b) sparse spectrum while the (c) aperiodic signal has a (d) continuous spectrum.

Fig. 10. Illustration of Fourier domain properties of moving objects with different texture and speed. (a) Block with sinusoidal fringe texture moving at a speed of v. The temporal waveform of the red point is shown with its Fourier spectrum. (b) Block with higher spatial frequency texture, also moving at the speed of v. (c) Block identical to (a) but moving at a higher speed 2v.