Hybrid view- synthesizing approach for multiview applications

The need for synthesizing virtual views is more pronounced with the advent of multiview displays, as it is not practical to capture all of the possible views when filming multiview content for different multiview display technologies. Unfortunately, during the process of view synthesis, areas, which were occluded by foreground objects in the real views, become visible in the virtual view as holes. Filling these holes with natural looking color and texture information is challenging. We present a new hybrid approach for synthesizing multiview videos, which utilizes an effective hole filling method that preserves the perceptual quality of 3D content. Subjective evaluations confirm that our approach outperforms the current state-of-the-art interpolation-base synthesizing method.