ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF VIRTUAL VIEW FROM MULTIPLE IMAGES CAPTURED WITH AN UNSTRUCTURED CAMERA ARRAY

Accession number;05A0212972
Title;ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF VIRTUAL VIEW FROM MULTIPLE IMAGES CAPTURED WITH AN UNSTRUCTURED CAMERA ARRAY
Author; KUBOTA A (Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Jpn) AIZAWA K (Univ. Tokyo, Kashiwa, Jpn)
Journal Title;IEIC Technical Report (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
Journal Code:S0532B
ISSN:0913-5685
VOL.104;NO.545(IE2004 145-173);PAGE.7-11(2005)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, REF.10
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;We apply our previous method of image based rendering to a view synthesis using images captured with an unstructured camera array. Our previous method can synthesize an "all in-focus" view from under-sampled light fields, significantly suppressing aliasing artifacts. The presented method consists of two steps; 1) rendering multiple views at a given view point by performing light field rendering with different focal plane depths; 2) iteratively reconstructing the all in-focus view by fusing the multiple views. We model the multiple views and the desired all in-focus view as a set of linear equations with a combination of textures at the focal depths. Aliasing artifacts can be modeled as spatially (shift) varying filters based on the arrangement of the camera array. We can solve this set of linear equations by using an iterative reconstruction approach. This method effectively integrates focused regions in each view into an all in-focus view without any local processing steps such as estimation of depth or segmentation of the focused regions. (author abst.)