ARBITRARY VIEWPOINT IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE

摘要

Provided is an arbitrary viewpoint image synthesizing device which generates an image in which an image capturing direction and an eye direction match by subjecting images captured by a plurality of cameras in different image capturing directions to synthesis processing. On the basis of a parameter stored in a camera parameter storage unit (26), coordinate transformation units (21, 22, 23) coordinate-transform images from respective cameras (2A, 2B, 2C). The transformed images are passed to a distance estimation unit (24) and an image synthesis unit (25). The image estimation unit (24) evaluates the three images by block-matching every pair of images. The image synthesis unit (25) synthesizes an image from the viewpoint of a virtual camera by extracting colors of corresponding pixels from the coordinate-transformed images and pasting the extracted colors on a created distance image of a subject.