Plenoptic Imaging (PLENOPTIMA) is a four-year (2021–2024) H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network that develops a cross-disciplinary approach to plenoptic imaging, which includes new optical materials and sensing principles, signal processing methods, new computing architectures, and vision science modelling. With this aim, PLENOPTIMA joins five of the strongest research groups in nanophotonics, imaging and machine learning in Europe with twelve innovative companies, research institutes, and a pre-competitive business ecosystem developing and marketing plenoptic imaging devices and services.

PLENOPTIMA, being in its essence a research project, is dedicated to establishing new multi-sectorial doctoral programmes in order to train 15 early stage researchers who are expected to become experts possessing wide scope of research capabilities and interests as well as versatility of research approaches. All participants of the PLENOPTIMA consortium are involved in key activities, which contribute to the full unroll of the project's innovation potential and create a solid platform for the future expansion of project ideas. The results generated within the project comprise new knowledge, algorithms, methods, software, prototypes, and data. The target audience for project’s results is rather wide including scientific community within and outside the project, general public, research companies and industry. The PLENOPTIMA achievements will be tailored to the specific audiences to raise awareness of society and encourage public involvement for promoting new imaging technologies.