Novel Multi-view Synthesis from a Stereo Image Pair for 3D Display on Mobile Phone

In this paper we present a novel view synthesis method for mobile platform. A disparity-based view interpolation is proposed to synthesize the virtual view from a left and right image pair. This makes to full use of the available information of both images to give accurate interpolation results and greatly decreases the pixel number in the disoccusion region, thus reducing the errors introduced by the patch-based image inpainting. Two boundary refining schemes considering gradient and color coherence and applying directional filters on boundaries are proposed to improve the synthesized results. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and suitable for mobile environment.