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A View Synthesis Approach for Free-navigation TV Applications

Authors:
Ilya Ganelin
Panos Nasiopoulos
Mahsa Pourazad

Keywords: Free Navigation TV; Multiview TV; view synthesis; hole filling; Multimedia communication; Image generation; Image reconstruction.

Abstract:
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.

Pages: 18 to 22

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: February 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4162

ISBN: 978-1-61208-533-3

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from February 19, 2017 to February 23, 2017