FAST OCCLUSION FILLING METHOD FOR MULTIVIEW VIDEO GENERATION

Occlusion filling is a basic problem for multiview video generation from existing monocular video. The essential goal of this problem is to recover missing information about a scenes 3D structure and corresponding texture. We propose a method for content-aware deformation of the source view that ensures no disoccluded regions are visible in the synthesized views while also keeping visible distortions to a minimum. We formulate this problem in terms of global energy min-imization. Furthermore, we introduce a similar variable-rejection algorithm that, along with other known optimization techniques, allows us to accelerate the energy function minimization by nearly 30 times and still maintain the visual quality of the synthesized views.