Systems and methods for detecting defective camera arrays and optic arrays

An array camera, comprising:

• an array camera module comprising a plurality of cameras formed by an imager array comprising a plurality of focal planes and an optic array comprising a plurality of lens stacks, where a first camera of the plurality of cameras formed by the imager array and optic array includes a known localized defect impacting image data captured by the first camera;
• a processor;
• and
• memory containing a super-resolution image processing application and defect data that identifies the first camera that includes the known localized defect and a region of the first camera that contains the known localized defect;
• wherein the super-resolution processing application configures the processor to:
• capture image data using the array camera module;
• disregard image data within at least one region of an image captured by the first camera, where the at least one region of the image comprises image data impacted by the region of the first camera that contains the known localized defect as identified by the defect data;
• and
• synthesize a super-resolution image, where, for a region of the super-resolution image that corresponds to the region of the first image with the disregarded image data, image data from a corresponding region of a second image captured by a second camera of the plurality of cameras is used for the synthesis, where the corresponding region corresponds to the region of the first image and is identified by searching for correspondence along an epipolar line up to a predetermined maximum parallax shift distance, where the epipolar line is defined parallel to the relative locations of the center of the first camera and the center of the second camera.