METHOD FOR GENERATING A HIGH-RESOLUTION VIRTUAL-FOCAL-PLANE IMAGE
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1. A method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which generates a virtual-focal-plane image by using one set of multi-view images consisting of multiple images obtained from multiple different view points, said method characterized in thatwith respect to an arbitrary predetermined region, said virtual-focal-plane image is generated by performing a deformation so that each image of said multi-view images overlaps.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which is capable of generating a virtual-focal-plane image with an arbitrary desired resolution simply and rapidly by using multi-view images.
The method of the present invention comprises a disparity estimating process step for estimating disparities by performing the stereo matching for multi-view images consisting of multiple images with different capturing positions and obtaining a disparity image; a region selecting process step for selecting an image among multi-view images as a basis image, setting all remaining images as reference images, and selecting a predetermined region on the basis image as a region of interest; a virtual-focal-plane estimating process step for estimating a plane in the disparity space for the region of interest based on the disparity image, and setting the estimated plane as a virtual-focal-plane; and an image integrating process step for obtaining image deformation parameters used for deforming each reference image to the basis image for the virtual-focal-plane, and generating the virtual-focal-plane image by deforming multi-view images with obtained image deformation parameters.
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1. A method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which generates a virtual-focal-plane image by using one set of multi-view images consisting of multiple images obtained from multiple different view points, said method characterized in that
with respect to an arbitrary predetermined region, said virtual-focal-plane image is generated by performing a deformation so that each image of said multi-view images overlaps.
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5. A method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which generates a virtual-focal-plane image by using one set of multi-view images consisting of multiple images captured from multiple different view points for a capturing object, said method comprising.
A disparity estimating process step for estimating disparities by performing the stereo matching for said multi-view images and obtaining a disparity image; -
a region selecting process step for selecting an image among said multiple images consisting of said multi-view images as a basis image, setting all remaining images except said basis image as reference images, and selecting a predetermined region on said basis image as a region of interest; a virtual-focal-plane estimating process step for estimating a plane in the disparity space for said region of interest based on said disparity image, and setting said estimated plane as a virtual-focal-plane; and an image integrating process step for obtaining image deformation parameters that are used for deforming said each reference image to said basis image for said virtual-focal-plane, and generating said virtual-focal-plane image by deforming said multi-view images with said obtained image deformation parameters. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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