Real-Time Diminished Reality for Dynamic Scenes

Diminished reality (DR) research aims to develop methods to visually hide objects from real scenes. One or more cameras capture a scene where some objects, called the occluding objects, are `diminished´ by an DR system. To do this in real time we need to use multiple cameras. We introduce a novel multi-camera DR system utilizing an RGB-D camera to hide arbitrary trackable objects from a scene. In our case, the scene background does not have to be planar for the system to work and we can handle scene changes in real time. Additonally, we introduce color correction technique to merge image content originating from different cameras and also demonstrate method to repair images with partially missing content.