Disocclusion using depth reliability map for view synthesis

In this paper, a novel disocclusion scheme is proposed based on the depth reliability maps for virtual view synthesis. One important aspect of the developed method is that the occlusion map is estimated with the depth reliability maps. Therefore, the holes in a virtual view image can be filled in by blending the two predict images based on the occlusion map. The experimental results demonstrate that the addressed method has better performance for view synthesis than the other three conventional methods through the assessment of image quality and algorithm cost.