A Joint Motion / Disparity Estimation Method for the Construction of Stereo Interpolated Images in Stereoscopic Image Sequences

This work[9] aims at determining dense motion and disparity elds given a stereoscopic sequence of images for the construction of stereo interpolated images. At each time instant the two dense motion elds, for the left and the right sequences, and the disparity eld of the next stereoscopic pair are jointly estimated. The disparity eld of the current stereoscopic pair is considered as known. The disparity eld of the rst stereoscopic pair is estimated separately. For both problems multi-scale iterative relaxation algorithms are used. Stereo occlusions and motion occlusions/disclosures are detected using error con dence measures. For the reconstruction of intermediate views a disparity compensated linear interpolation algorithm is used. Results are given for real stereoscopic data.

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