SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTERMEDIATE VIEW IMAGES

摘要

A method (700) is disclosed for generating a series of intermediate images (721) from a stereo image (701). The stereo image (701) comprises a left image (101) corresponding to a left viewpoint and a right image (102) corresponding to a right viewpoint. The series of intermediate images (721) correspond to spatially consecutive viewpoints in a view-point range that comprises at least one of the left viewpoint and the right viewpoint. The method (700) comprises determining (710) a target viewpoint (711) based on predicted image quality of the series of intermediate images (721) corresponding to spatially consecutive viewpoints centered at the target viewpoint (711), and generating (720) the series of intermediate images (721) from the stereo image (701) for spatially consecutive viewpoints centered at the target viewpoint (711).

主权项

1. Method for generating a series of intermediate images from a stereo image, the stereo image comprising a left image corresponding to a left viewpoint and a right image corresponding to a right viewpoint,
the series of intermediate images corresponding to spatially consecutive viewpoints, the first and the last of the spatially consecutive viewpoints defining a viewpoint range that comprises at least one of the left viewpoint and the right viewpoint, the method comprising positioning a center of the spatially consecutive viewpoints at a target viewpoint by:
determining the target viewpoint based on predicted image quality of the series of intermediate images for the spatially consecutive viewpoints centered at different target viewpoints, the predicted image quality being based on an image characteristic of the stereo image, the image characteristic being image detail or occlusion artifacts; andgenerating the series of intermediate images from the stereo image for the spatially consecutive viewpoints centered at the determined target viewpoint.