Creating Depth Map from 2D Scene Classification

Although the depth information of the scene is not stored while taking a picture, some features about the depth information still exist in the captured image. In this paper, we propose a method that generates the depth map of a single image based on scene classification. At first, it classifies the scene of the image into categories according to the color feature; then it generates the depth map of the image by using the related information of the scene category. Depth map contains the depth information of 2D image and can be used to generate the stereo-image pairs by left and right shifting the original image. The stereoscopic image with three-dimensional visual effect can be viewed through a 3D display. The experiments have shown that the proposed method works well and produces good stereoscopic effect.