Stereoscopic view synthesis based on region-wise rendering and sparse representation

• A region-wise rendering framework is proposed to fill holes in the DIBR process.
• Adaptive methods are used in each special region to render virtual views separately.
• Dictionary-based inpainting is improved by efficient double dictionary synthesis.
• The synthesized dictionary shows a good balance between finer-tuned and fast coding.

Depth image-based rendering (DIBR), which is used to render virtual views with a color image and the corresponding depth map, is one of the key techniques in the 2D to 3D conversion process. One of the main problems in DIBR is how to reduce holes that occur on the generated virtual view images. In this paper, we make two main contributions to deal with the problem. Firstly, a region-wise rendering framework, which divides the original image regions into three special classes and renders each with optimal adaptive process respectively, is introduced. Then, a novel sparse representation-based inpainting method, which can yield visually satisfactory results with less computational complexity for high quality 2D to 3D conversion, is proposed. Numerical experimental results demonstrate the good performance of the proposed methods.