A View Synthesis Approach for Free-navigation TV Applications

摘要

The need for multiview content is more pronounced with the emergence of Free-viewpoint Television (FTV), Super Multiview (SMV), and Free Navigation (FN) technologies. For multiview content creation, it is not practical to capture all of the views required by different multiview display technologies. Instead, a limited number of views are captured and the remaining views are synthesized using the available views. The efficiency of the view synthesizing process has a high impact on the quality of the generated multiview content. In this paper, we present a novel view synthesizing scheme, which utilizes unique techniques such as background decomposition in three layers, background edge dilation, vertical interpolation and edge aware warping, to generate high quality virtual views. Subjective evaluations confirm that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art interpolation-based view synthesizing.