An efficient walk-through from two images using view morphing and spidery mesh interface

This paper presents an efficient walk-through animation with two images of the same scene. We suggest a new virtual navigation technique which enables natural scene transformation when the viewpoint changes in the parallel direction as well as in the depth direction. In our method, view morphing is employed only in foreground objects, and background scene perceived carelessly is mapped into cube-like 3D model as in TIP (tour into the picture), so as to save detail 3D reconstruction cost and improve visual realism simultaneously. To do this, we define a new camera transformation between two images from the relationship of spidery mesh transformation and its corresponding view change. The result animation demonstrates the efficiency of our method.