Stereo vision, 3D video capture and scene representations - 3D Video Processing and Transmission - page 24

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Figure 2.8: Interviewsequence;(a)Colourimage,(b)Per-pixeldepthimage.Thedepthimagesare
normalized toanearclippingplaneZ near andafarclippingplaneZ far .

Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) can be utilized to render/synthesize two virtual
views for the left and right eyes using the colour image sequence and the corresponding
per-pixel depth information [20] [21]. This process can be employed in two major steps;