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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2012.37A.8.679

Boundary Noise Removal and Hole Filling Algorithm for Virtual Viewpoint Image Generation  

Ko, Min-Soo (광운대학교 전자공학과 디지털미디어 연구실)
Yoo, Ji-Sang (광운대학교 전자공학과 디지털미디어 연구실)
Abstract
In this paper, performance improved hole-filling algorithm including boundary noise removing pre-process which can be used for an arbitrary view synthesis with given two views is proposed. Boundary noise usually occurs because of the boundary mismatch between the reference image and depth map and common-hole is defined as the occluded region. These boundary noise and common-hole created while synthesizing a virtual view result in some defects and they are usually very difficult to be completely recovered by using only given two images as references. The spiral weighted average algorithm gives a clear boundary of each object by using depth information and the gradient searching algorithm is able to preserve details. In this paper, we combine these two algorithms by using a weighting factor ${\alpha}$ to reflect the strong point of each algorithm effectively in the virtual view synthesis process. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than conventional algorithms.
Keywords
3D Warping; Virtual viewpoint image; Freeview-point TV; Multi-view image; Hole filling;
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