Scene reconstruction from high spatio-angular resolution light fields

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9786062
APP PUB NO 20140327674A1
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13944337

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The disclosure provides an approach for estimating depth in a scene. According to one aspect, regions where the depth estimation is expected to perform well may first be identified in full-resolution epipolar-plane images (EPIs) generated from a plurality of images of the scene. Depth estimates for EPI-pixels with high edge confidence are determined by testing a number of discrete depth hypotheses and picking depths that lead to highest color density of sampled EPI-pixels. The depth estimate may also be propagated throughout the EPIs. This process of depth estimation and propagation may be iterated until all EPI-pixels with high edge confidence have been processed, and all EPIs may also be processed in this manner. The EPIs are then iteratively downsampled to coarser resolutions, at which edge confidence for EPI-pixels not yet processed are determined, depth estimates of EPI-pixels with high edge confidence made, and depth estimates propagated throughout the EPIs.

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ETH ZURICH (EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH)RAEMISTRASSE 101 ETH TRANSFER / HG E43-49 ZURICH 8092
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY (SWITZERLAND) GMBHHOSCHGASSE 45 ZURICH CH-8008

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Gross, Markus Uster, CH 131 1896
Kim, Changil Zurich, CH 42 583
Pritch, Yael Zurich, CH 17 645
Sorkine-Hornung, Alexander Zurich, CH 11 158
Zimmer, Henning Zurich, CH 16 200

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