2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDIVMSP-28.2
Paper Title RANGE GUIDED DEPTH REFINEMENT AND UNCERTAINTY-AWARE AGGREGATION FOR VIEW SYNTHESIS
Authors Yuan Chang, Yisong Chen, Guoping Wang, Peking University, China
SessionIVMSP-28: Image Synthesis
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Friday, 11 June, 11:30 - 12:15
Presentation Time:Friday, 11 June, 11:30 - 12:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing: [IVARS] Image & Video Analysis, Synthesis, and Retrieval
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Abstract In this paper, we present a framework of view synthesis, including range guided depth refinement and uncertainty-aware aggregation based novel view synthesis. We first propose a novel depth refinement method to improve the quality and robustness of the depth map reconstruction. To that end, we use a range prior to constrain the estimated depth, which helps us to get more accurate depth information. Then we propose an uncertainty-aware aggregation method for novel view synthesis. We compute the uncertainty of the estimated depth for each pixel, and reduce the influence of pixels whose uncertainty are large when synthesizing novel views. This step helps to reduce some artifacts such as ghost and blur. We validate the performance of our algorithm experimentally, and we show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance.