Artifact Handling Based on Depth Image for View Synthesis

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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Depth image-based rendering (DIBR) plays an important role in 3D video and free viewpoint video synthesis. However, artifacts might occur in the synthesized view due to viewpoint changes and stereo depth estimation errors. Holes are usually out-of-field regions and disocclusions, and filling them appropriately becomes a challenge. In this paper, a virtual view synthesis approach based on asymmetric bidirectional DIBR is proposed. A depth image preprocessing method is applied to detect and correct unreliable depth values around the foreground edges. For the primary view, all pixels are warped to the virtual view by the modified DIBR method. For the auxiliary view, only the selected regions are warped, which contain the contents that are not visible in the primary view. This approach reduces the computational cost and prevents irrelevant foreground pixels from being warped to the holes. During the merging process, a color correction approach is introduced to make the result appear more natural. In addition, a depth-guided inpainting method is proposed to handle the remaining holes in the merged image. Experimental results show that, compared with bidirectional DIBR, the proposed rendering method can reduce about 37% rendering time and achieve 97% hole reduction. In terms of visual quality and objective evaluation, our approach performs better than the previous methods.

Section: Asymmetrical Bidirectional Renderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual View Synthesis Based on Asymmetric Bidirectional DIBR for 3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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“…Reference image and the preprocessed depth image are used as the input of modified 3D warping [32] to synthesize the virtual image. All pixels in the reference image are projected to the world coordinate based on their depth values.…”

Section: B Classification Of Disocclusion Edgementioning

confidence: 99%

Local Foreground Removal Disocclusion Filling Method for View Synthesis

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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View synthesis is an effective method to generate the contents of multiple views based on a limited number of reference views, which can be used in 2D to 3D conversion, free viewpoint video and multiview video rendering. Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) is a practical technique to generate virtual view by using a 2D reference view and its depth image. However, a critical problem in DIBR process is that disocclusions might be produced in the synthesized image because the background occluded by the foreground objects in the reference view may be exposed in the virtual view. In this paper, a local foreground removal method is proposed for disocclusion filling. Morphology-based depth image preprocessing is performed before DIBR, aiming to correct the depth value of the ghosts and remove ghost artifacts. In the synthesized virtual image, pixels on the disocclusion edge are identified and classified. Then they are positioned in the reference image by inverse 3D warping. Local foreground regions that occlude the corresponding background are removed from both the reference image and its depth image based on the disocclusion edge pixels. Removed region is filled with surrounding background contents, and depth information is used in this process to prevent foreground penetration. The predicted background contents are warped to the disocclusion region, thereby achieving the hole filling. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than the other methods in disocclusion filling, and improves the subjective and objective quality of the synthesized view. In the evaluation results of PSNR, SSIM, FSIMc and VSI, our method improves by 0.

“…Stereo matching is one basic task of computer vision, whose goal is to estimate disparity when inputting an image pair [1], which is widely applied in navigation [2], 3D construction [3] and virtual viewpoint imaging [4]. Estimating accurate and continuously varying disparities is the key to stereo matching, and many related algorithms have been proposed and they can output dense and continuous disparity map [5]- [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CrossPatch-Based Rolling Label Expansion for Dense Stereo Matching

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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We present a novel algorithm called crosspatch-based rolling label expansion for accurate stereo matching. This optimization-based approach can effectively estimate the 3D label of each pixel from huge and infinite label space and then generate a continuous disparity map. The algorithm has two obvious characteristics when compared with the traditional label expansion algorithms. The first feature is the crossbased multilayer structure, where each layer contains a series of cross patches with adaptive shapes, reflecting the edge structure of objects on the image. Besides, such cross patches are non-overlapping and independent, satisfying the submodular property for employing graph cuts. The second feature is the rolling optimization, that firstly generates new label proposal by expanding candidate labels within cross patches, then globally updates labels for the whole image using a proposed rolling move. The experimental results show the high matching accuracy of our method, both in pixel level and subpixel level. According to the latest ranking list of Middlebury 3.0 benchmark, our method is one of the best stereo matching algorithms.INDEX TERMS Stereo matching, label expansion, PatchMatch, rolling optimization, cross-based multilayer structure.