Edge-constrained joint view triangulation for image interpolation

Image-based-interpolation creates smooth and photo-realistic views between two view points. The concept of joint view triangulation (JVT) has been proven to be an efficient multi-view representation to handle visibility issue. However, the existing JVT built only on a regular sampling grid, often produces undesirable artifacts for artificial objects. To tackle these problems, a new edge-constrained joint view triangulation is developed in this paper to integrate contour points and artificial rectilinear objects as triangulation constraints. Also a super-sampling technique is introduced to refine visible boundaries. The new algorithm is successfully demonstrated on many real image pairs.