Arbitrary Stereoscopic View Generation Using Multiple Omnidirectional Image Sequences

Abstract--This paper proposes a novel method for generating arbitrary stereoscopic view from multiple omnidirectional image sequences. Although conventional methods for arbitrary view generation with an image-based rendering approach can create binocular views, positions and directions of viewpoints for stereoscopic vision are limited to a small range. In this research, we attempt to generate arbitrary stereoscopic views from omnidirectional image sequences that are captured in various multiple paths. To generate a high-quality stereoscopic view from a number of images captured at various viewpoints, appropriate ray information needs to be selected. In this paper, appropriate ray information is selected from a number of omnidirectional images using a penalty function expressed as ray similarity. In experiments, we show the validity of this penalty function by generating stereoscopic view from multiple real image sequences. Keywords-stereoscopic image; novel view generation; imagebased ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Maiya Hori, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya
• Keywords: Arbitrary Stereoscopic Views, Computer Vision, ICPR 2010, Omnidirectional Image, Stereoscopic View