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An Edge Adaptive Up-sampling Scheme Based on Depth Map Compression

  

  1. 1. College of Metropolitan Transportation, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China;
    2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Intelligent Software Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • Received:2014-04-02 Online:2014-05-28 Published:2014-05-30

Abstract:  In 3D video system, in order to better preserve the edge sharpness of depth maps and improve the rendering quality of virtual views, the paper proposed a novel two-step edge adaptive up-sampling scheme to recover the lost information due to down-sampling operation prior to encoding. We detected the horizontal and vertical edges of low resolution (LR) depth map and high resolution (HR) texture map by Sobel operation. Then, we utilized the texture information to direct the reconstruction of accurate HR depth map according to the characteristic of different areas of depth map. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves both depth map coding efficiency and perceptual quality of rendered views.

Key words: D video, depth map up-sampling, edge detection, view synthesis

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