View reconstruction for 3-D video entertainment: issues, algorithms and applications

Significant advances in stereoscopic imaging have lead to viable applications in medicine, teleoperation and in entertainment. Although the stereoscopic technology is still mostly analog, the migration to the digital domain is inevitable. Such a migration creates new challenges for stereoscopic video entertainment, but at the same time offers new opportunities. One particular challenge is the reconstruction of intermediate views (between the left and right cameras), that finds various applications. Several algorithms aiming at high-quality view reconstruction, developed at INRS, are described, and their relative merits are discussed. Since a practical implementation requires low complexity, results of a study of various models and parameters aiming at computational simplicity are reported