Three-Dimensional Image Completion For Depth Image Based Rendering

3D video and the corresponding applications are getting more and more attentions in the recent years due to the vivid viewing experiment it can bring. In a 3DTV system, the occlusion handling is one main design challenge. The quality of the previous works is not good enough. Further, the computational complexity from the image based processing grows dramatically while the requirement of the virtual view numbers grows up. In this paper, a three-dimensional image completion scheme is proposed. By three-dimensional voxel transformation and completion, the 3D structure of the whole scene is generated and the occlusion part of virtual views from any view-point can be rendered based on the same voxel set. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm also provides 0.78 to 1.26 dB PSNR gains more than the PSNR from the prior-arts. Keywords-3DTV; DIBR; vitural view syethesis; inpainting;