Depth Estimation Using Adaptive Support-Weight Approach for Light Field Images

Autor: Po-Yi Chang, 張博一
Rok vydání: 2018
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 106
Light field cameras acquire muti-view images using the microlens array. Due to the narrow baseline between multiple views, sub-pixel accuracy of the estimated disparity is expected. Adaptive support-weight approach is a local based disparity estimation method. Although several adaptive support-weight approach (ASW) based disparity estimation schemes for light field images have been proposed, they did not consider the problem of sub-pixel accuracy. Therefore, this thesis proposes to improve adaptive support-weight approach based depth estimation for light field images. Before disparity estimation, bicubic interpolation is applied to light field images for sub-pixel accuracy. Then the adaptive support-weight approach estimates disparities, where the cross window is adopted to reduce computation complexity. The intersection position of the vertical and horizontal arms is dynamically adjusted on the image border. Then, we increase the weights of pixels which have higher edge response. Finally, the estimated disparities from multiple view featuring with the same horizontal position are combined to generate the disparity map of the central view. Our experimental results show that the average error rate of the proposed method is lower than that of the EPI based adaptive window matching approach for 5.4%.
Databáze: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations