An enhanced depth map based rendering method with directional depth filter and image inpainting

摘要

Depth image-based rendering (DIBR), which is used to render virtual views with a color image and the corresponding depth map, is one of the key techniques in the 2D to 3D video conversion process. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to partially solve two puzzles of DIBR, i.e. visual image generation and hole filling. The method combines two different approaches for synthesizing new views from an existing view and a corresponding depth map. Disoccluded parts of the synthesized image are first classified as either smooth or highly structured. At structured regions, inpainting is used to preserve the background structure. In other regions, an improved directional depth smoothing is used to avoid disocclusion. Thus, more details and straight line structures in the generated virtual image are preserved. The key contributions include an enhanced adaptive directional filter and a directional hole inpainting algorithm. Experiments show that the disocclusion is removed and the geometric distortion is reduced efficiently. The proposed method can generate more visually satisfactory results.