Interactive arbitrary-view rendering system using fast IBR and depth correction

Abstract

Generating accurate geometric model of a real world environment and improving the rendering quality remained as the bottleneck problems in the field of arbitrary-view rendering. Inspired by the geometrical limitations between input images, we applied a fast image-based rendering (IBR) method for interactively synthesizing arbitrary-view. Although images form different views are needed, only "Region of Interest" (ROI) is used for the synthesis. Besides, a depth correction scheme based on plane-sweep algorithm was used to diminish visual artifact caused by insufficient geometric information. The good performance of our prototyped system has demonstrated the validity and potential of the proposed method.