Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement

In recent years, new active range sensors have been developed for 3D data acquirement, such as time-of-flight cameras. These sensors enable acquiring of range data at video rate and are suited for dynamic environment. Unfortunately, the resolution of the range data is quite limited and the captured...

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Main Authors: Li LI, Caiming ZHANG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2013-11-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/7/5/7_808/_pdf/-char/en
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description In recent years, new active range sensors have been developed for 3D data acquirement, such as time-of-flight cameras. These sensors enable acquiring of range data at video rate and are suited for dynamic environment. Unfortunately, the resolution of the range data is quite limited and the captured data are typically contaminated by noise. In this paper, we propose a novel method for depth video enhancement. Using high resolution color video as guidance reference, we iteratively refine the input depth map based on a newly presented linear filter model, in terms of both its spatial resolution and depth precision. The linear filter has a good edge-preserving property and a runtime independent of filter size, which fulfills both accuracy and speed requirements. For temporally consistent estimate on depth video, we extend the method into temporally neighboring frames. Simple optical flow and patch-based similarity measure are used to obtain accurate depth in an efficient manner. Experimental results show that the proposed method greatly improves the quality and boosts the resolution of range data while achieving high computational efficiency. We also show that the temporally consistent constraint addresses a flickering problem and improves the accuracy of depth video.
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spelling doaj.art-8ad6546e3831445584118769602675f92022-12-22T03:02:11ZengThe Japan Society of Mechanical EngineersJournal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing1881-30542013-11-017580881710.1299/jamdsm.7.808jamdsmSpatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video EnhancementLi LI0Caiming ZHANG1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Media Technology School of Computer Science and Technology Shandong University of Finance and EconomicsShandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Media Technology School of Computer Science and Technology Shandong University of Finance and EconomicsIn recent years, new active range sensors have been developed for 3D data acquirement, such as time-of-flight cameras. These sensors enable acquiring of range data at video rate and are suited for dynamic environment. Unfortunately, the resolution of the range data is quite limited and the captured data are typically contaminated by noise. In this paper, we propose a novel method for depth video enhancement. Using high resolution color video as guidance reference, we iteratively refine the input depth map based on a newly presented linear filter model, in terms of both its spatial resolution and depth precision. The linear filter has a good edge-preserving property and a runtime independent of filter size, which fulfills both accuracy and speed requirements. For temporally consistent estimate on depth video, we extend the method into temporally neighboring frames. Simple optical flow and patch-based similarity measure are used to obtain accurate depth in an efficient manner. Experimental results show that the proposed method greatly improves the quality and boosts the resolution of range data while achieving high computational efficiency. We also show that the temporally consistent constraint addresses a flickering problem and improves the accuracy of depth video.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/7/5/7_808/_pdf/-char/enrange datadepth video enhancementlinear filtertemporal consistency
spellingShingle Li LI
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Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing
range data
depth video enhancement
linear filter
temporal consistency
title Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
title_full Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
title_fullStr Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
title_full_unstemmed Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
title_short Spatio-Temporal Consistency in Depth Video Enhancement
title_sort spatio temporal consistency in depth video enhancement
topic range data
depth video enhancement
linear filter
temporal consistency
url https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/7/5/7_808/_pdf/-char/en
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