View Synthesis from multi-view RGB data using multilayered representation and volumetric estimation

TitleView Synthesis from multi-view RGB data using multilayered representation and volumetric estimation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsZ Su, T Zhou, K Li, D Brady, and Y Liu
JournalVirtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware
Volume2
Issue1
Start Page43
Pagination43 - 55
Date Published02/2020
Abstract

Background: Aiming at free-view exploration of complicated scenes, this paper presents a method for interpolating views among multi RGB cameras. Methods: In this study, we combine the idea of cost volume, which represent 3D information, and 2D semantic segmentation of the scene, to accomplish view synthesis of complicated scenes. We use the idea of cost volume to estimate the depth and confidence map of the scene, and use a multi-layer representation and resolution of the data to optimize the view synthesis of the main object. Results: /Conclusions By applying different treatment methods on different layers of the volume, we can handle complicated scenes containing multiple persons and plentiful occlusions. We also propose the view-interpolation→multi-view reconstruction→view interpolation pipeline to iteratively optimize the result. We test our method on varying data of multi-view scenes and generate decent results.

DOI10.1016/j.vrih.2019.12.001
Short TitleVirtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware