Joint texture-depth pixel inpainting of disocclusion holes in virtual view synthesis

Smarti Reel, Gene Cheung, Patrick Wong, Laurence S. Dooley

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Abstract

Transmitting texture and depth maps from one or more reference views enables a user to freely choose virtual viewpoints from which to synthesize images for observation via depth-image-based rendering (DIBR). In each DIBR-synthesized image, however, there remain disocclusion holes with missing pixels corresponding to spatial regions occluded from view in the reference images. To complete these holes, unlike previous schemes that rely heavily (and unrealistically) on the availability of a high-quality depth map in the virtual view for inpainting of the corresponding texture map, in this paper a new Joint Texture-Depth Inpainting (JTDI) algorithm is proposed that simultaneously fill in missing texture and depth pixels. Specifically, we first use available partial depth information to compute priority terms to identify the next target pixel patch in a disocclusion hole for inpainting. Then, after identifying the best-matched texture patch in the known pixel region via template matching for texture inpainting, the variance of the corresponding depth patch is copied to the target depth patch for depth inpainting. Experimental results show that JTDI outperforms two previous inpainting schemes that either does not use available depth information during inpainting, or depends on the availability of a good depth map at the virtual view for good inpainting performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9789869000604
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2013
Event2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 29 Oct 20131 Nov 2013

Conference

Conference2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityKaohsiung
Period29/10/131/11/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing

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