Dense Wide-Baseline Disparities from Conventional Stereo for Immersive Videoconferencing

  • Authors:
  • Spela Ivekovic;Emanuele Trucco

  • Affiliations:
  • Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK;Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 4 - Volume 04
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose an algorithm creating consistent, dense disparity maps from incomplete disparity data generated by a conventional stereo system used in a wide-baseline configuration. The reference application is IBR-oriented immersive videoconferencing, in which disparities are used by a view synthesis module to create instantaneous views of remote speakers consistent with the local speaker's viewpoint.We perform spline-based disparity interpolation within non-overlapping regions.Regions are defined by discontinuity boundaries identified in the incomplete disparity map.We demonstrate very good results on significantly incomplete disparity data computed by a conventional correlation-based stereo algorithm on real wide-baseline stereo pair acquired by an immersive videoconferencing system.