Motion estimation for stereoscopic video and its application to frame rate up-conversion for 3-D TV

Author

Choi, Kang-Sun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Korea Univ. of Technol. & Educ., Cheonan, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

13-16 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

608

Lastpage

609

Abstract

To display video contents vividly on consumer devices including television (TV) and computer, frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) has been widely employed. However, for stereoscopic video, applying any conventional FRUC algorithm to each view may cause severe annoying artifacts resulting from inconsistency between two motion vector fields. In this paper, a novel motion estimation (ME) algorithm is proposed for stereoscopic video and applied to FRUC for three-dimensional TV (3-DTV). By searching motion for correspondences in stereo views simultaneously, reliable and consistent motions having only horizontal disparity can be obtained, and much higher visual quality and depth representation are delivered when the interpolated stereoscopic video is viewed.

Keywords

interpolation; motion estimation; stereo image processing; three-dimensional television; video signal processing; 3D TV; FRUC; ME algorithm; computer; consumer devices; depth representation; frame rate up-conversion; motion estimation algorithm; motion vector fields; stereoscopic video interpolation; television; three-dimensional TV; video content display; visual quality; Cameras; Educational institutions; Motion estimation; Reliability; Stereo image processing; TV; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2158-3994

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0230-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2012.6162039

Filename

6162039