1. Temporal Frame Interpolation With Motion-Divergence-Guided Occlusion Handling.
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Rufenacht, Dominic, Mathew, Reji, and Taubman, David
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INTERPOLATION , *IMAGE processing , *MOTION detectors , *KINETIC energy , *NUMERICAL analysis - Abstract
We present a high-quality temporal frame interpolation (TFI) method that employs piecewise-smooth motion and handles disoccluded regions using the observation that motion discontinuities travel with the foreground object. We derive a “motion discontinuity” likelihood map from the divergence of a motion field between the input frames. Motion which is modeled at the reference frame is mapped to the target frame using a cellular-affine mapping strategy—a process during which regions of disocclusion are readily observed. This information is then used to guide the occlusion-aware, bidirectional FI process. Furthermore, we propose two computationally inexpensive texture optimizations that selectively improve the quality of the interpolated frames in regions around moving objects. The scheme produces very high-quality interpolated frames and outperforms current high-quality state-of-the-art TFI schemes by 2–2.5 dB; the method works with a very low-complexity motion estimation scheme and runs orders of magnitudes faster than its competitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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