Title
Disparity estimation for fisheye images with an application to intermediate view synthesis
Abstract
To obtain depth information from a stereo camera setup, a common way is to conduct disparity estimation between the two views; the disparity map thus generated may then also be used to synthesize arbitrary intermediate views. A straightforward approach to disparity estimation is block matching, which performs well with perspective data. When dealing with non-perspective imagery such as obtained from ultra wide-angle fisheye cameras, however, block matching meets its limits. In this paper, an adapted disparity estimation approach for fisheye images is introduced. The proposed method exploits knowledge about the fisheye projection function to transform the fisheye coordinate grid to a corresponding perspective mesh. Offsets between views can thus be determined more accurately, resulting in more reliable disparity maps. By re-projecting the perspective mesh to the fisheye domain, the original fisheye field of view is retained. The benefit of the proposed method is demonstrated in the context of intermediate view synthesis, for which both objectively evaluated as well as visually convincing results are provided.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MMSP.2017.8122251
2017 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
fisheye images,intermediate view synthesis,stereo camera setup,arbitrary intermediate views,block matching,perspective data,nonperspective imagery,wide-angle fisheye cameras,adapted disparity estimation approach,fisheye projection function,reliable disparity maps,fisheye domain,perspective mesh,fisheye field of view
Field of view,Stereo camera,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Projection (set theory),Computer science,Visualization,View synthesis,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Distortion,Grid
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2163-3517
978-1-5090-3650-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Eichenseer152.33
Michel Bätz2227.44
André Kaup3861127.24