This paper details a new modular approach to virtual view creation that is designed to work in conjunction with a proposed scalable teleconferencing configuration. This scalable system is configured using building blocks defined as Stereo Camera Analysis Blocks (SCAB). SCABs consist of axe-parallel narrow baseline stereo cameras. These provide design flexibility and improve the image analysis p...

Stereo matching algorithm is usually used to obtain a disparity map from a pair of images. However, the disparity map obtained by using stereo matching contains lots of noise and error regions. In this paper, we propose a virtual-view synthesis algorithm using disparity refinement in order to improve the quality of the synthesized image. First, the error region is detected by examining the cons...

In this paper, a system is designed for improving the quality of novel view synthesis. To make the virtual view synthesis look better, the basic idea is to perform model refinement with important camera information of the novel view. In this system, we first use the reconstructed visual hull from shape from silhouette and then refine this 3D model based on the view dependency. The 3D points of ...

This report describes work on 3D content generation performed under the Austrian 3D-ConTourNet participation project Hyperion3D. We review key processing steps such as disparity computation, inter-camera mapping and virtual view synthesis, and give information on a publicly available database for evaluating 3D visual discomfort. Keywords—trifocal camera; 3D film; stereo matching; view synthesis...

View synthesis involves use of existing images to generate virtual images at varying viewpoints. With the advancements in digital media, virtual view generation has gained much attention. It is widely being used in computer generated animations where it is required to transform one object into another, or to observe the same object from a different point of view. A variety of techniques exist, ...

This research proposes an on-line incremental 3D reconstruction framework that can be used on human machine interaction (HMI) or augmented reality (AR) applications. There is a wide variety of research opportunities including high performance imaging, multi-view video, virtual view synthesis, etc. One fundamental challenge in geometry reconstruction from traditional cameras array is the lack of...

The problem of synthesizing novel views consists of generating new views of a scene using at least two reference views. The new generated views, called also novel views, correspond to virtual viewpoints where no real camera has taken snapshots. In the last few year, view synthesis has been a thriving field of research in both computer vision and computer graphics. Applications of novel view syn...