Temporal-Consistent Stereo Matting for High-Quality Novel View Synthesis and Visual Effects

Margrit Gelautz

Vienna University of Technology

This project develops new image processing techniques for the emerging field of 3D television. Using two videos recorded by slightly staggered cameras, a three-dimensional model of the moving scene is created, the challenge for computing being to achieve a high-resolution reconstruction of object boundaries and to create flowing transitions between the single frames of a 3D sequence. The information thus obtained serves as an input for an autostereoscopic screen which uses these results in order to provide the viewer with a natural depth impression in the three-dimensional imaging. The project results are furthermore to be used to develop the exciting new option of a “free viewpoint” video, where the user is given control over a virtual camera to select his/her preferred viewpoint.

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