Assessment of multi-plenoptic 2.0 camera depth maps for DIBR

Abstract

We aim to evaluate the depth map quality by the plenoptic 2.0 cameras for DIBR applications, by simulating a multi-plenoptic camera array, and synthesizing virtual images based on the obtained color and depth maps. The real-time generated depth maps by plenoptic cameras are compared with the offline and high-quality depth maps estimated by the MPEG-I Depth Estimation Reference Software (DERS). Results show that synthesized virtual image quality obtained by RGBD plenoptic cameras has acceptable quality for real-time DIBR applications, but lower than using the depth estimated by DERS, due to a loss of inter-view depth consistency.