High Quality Free Viewpoint Synthesis Using Multi-view Images with Depth Information

Author

Tsuchida, Itaru ; Fan Chen ; Izawa, Junko ; Kotani, Kazunori

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ishikawa, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

Compared to conventional synthesis methods of free viewpoint images that use only multi-view images, our research synthesizes high quality free viewpoint images by using multi-view depth information as well as the images. By recovering high resolution and high precision 3D shapes from multi-view information, high quality free viewpoint images are synthesizable. Our research captures the scene by acquiring its multi-view depth appearance information, using a laser range finder. By performing camera parameter estimation, multi-view 3D shape integration and depth estimation, high quality free viewpoint images for any scene are synthesized. The performance of our method has been investigated by experimental results.

Keywords

feature extraction; stereo image processing; camera parameter estimation; depth information; free viewpoint synthesis; high precision 3D shape; high resolution shape recovery; laser range finder; multiview 3D shape integration; multiview depth appearance information; multiview image; Cameras; Estimation; Image generation; Measurement by laser beam; Parameter estimation; Shape; Three dimensional displays; depth estimation; free viewpoint image synthesis; multi-view environment; shape integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia (ISM), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dana Point CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2015-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISM.2011.12

Filename

6123319