Virtual View Synthesis for Multi-view 3D Display

Virtual view synthesis is an important technique for multi-view 3D display. This makes that multi-view images for 3D display can be created by only two-view images. An efficient virtual view synthesis method was proposed based on disparity map and image interpolation. An adaptive weight stereo matching approach was adopted to obtain the initial disparity map. Cross-checking technique was utilized to detect occlusion regions. Then disparities in occluded regions were refined. Pixel domain matches were defined by refined disparity map, and virtual view was created using a weighted average of two original images. The proposed method was tested with several image pairs. Experimental results show our method can provide synthesized virtual images with high image quality, and lead to the experience of depth from different viewpoint through multi-view 3D display.