High quality virtual view synthesis based on corrected surface mapping and image fusion

Perceptual errors introduced by current virtual view creation approaches for free viewpoint video often result in severe distortions in synthesised images. A novel virtual view synthesis algorithm is proposed based on corrected region based surface mapping and an image fusion method to reduce perceptual errors. The results over multi-view image sets imply that the proposed method improves the objective and subjective performance simultaneously, compared with previous dominant multiple image view synthesis approaches.