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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2016.21.6.957

Depth Upsampling Method Using Total Generalized Variation  

Hong, Su-Min (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GIST)
Ho, Yo-Sung (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GIST)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.21, no.6, 2016 , pp. 957-964 More about this Journal
Abstract
Acquisition of reliable depth maps is a critical requirement in many applications such as 3D videos and free-viewpoint TV. Depth information can be obtained from the object directly using physical sensors, such as infrared ray (IR) sensors. Recently, Time-of-Flight (ToF) range camera including KINECT depth camera became popular alternatives for dense depth sensing. Although ToF cameras can capture depth information for object in real time, but are noisy and subject to low resolutions. Recently, filter-based depth up-sampling algorithms such as joint bilateral upsampling (JBU) and noise-aware filter for depth up-sampling (NAFDU) have been proposed to get high quality depth information. However, these methods often lead to texture copying in the upsampled depth map. To overcome this limitation, we formulate a convex optimization problem using higher order regularization for depth map upsampling. We decrease the texture copying problem of the upsampled depth map by using edge weighting term that chosen by the edge information. Experimental results have shown that our scheme produced more reliable depth maps compared with previous methods.
Keywords
ToF camera; depth map upsampling; total generalized variation; diffusion tensor;
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