IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING DEPTH INFORMATION USING AN IMAGE

摘要

An image processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: forming a planar mesh composed of a plurality of vertexes corresponding to a plurality of pixels of an image and a plurality of polygons; setting, to the vertexes, a height corresponding to a brightness value of each pixel corresponding to each vertex to form a three-dimensional mesh; combining mesh areas where the difference among the heights is within a preset range to simplify the three-dimensional mesh; matching, to the image, a plurality of reference points having depth values of the image as the viewpoint of the image; and matching the vertexes of the simplified three-dimensional mesh to the matched reference points to extract the depth values of the vertexes. [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S10) Planar mesh generation; (S20) Three-dimensional mesh generation; (S30) Three-dimensional mesh simplification; (S40) Reference point matching; (S50) Depth information extraction; (S60) Depth information adjustment