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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2017
Fotonation Limited, Galway, IE;
Ankit Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Priyam Chatterjee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kartik Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
FotoNation Limited, Galway, IE;
Abstract
Systems and methods for hybrid depth regularization in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a depth sensing system comprises a plurality of cameras; a processor; and a memory containing an image processing application. The image processing application may direct the processor to obtain image data for a plurality of images from multiple viewpoints, the image data comprising a reference image and at least one alternate view image; generate a raw depth map using a first depth estimation process, and a confidence map; and generate a regularized depth map. The regularized depth map may be generated by computing a secondary depth map using a second different depth estimation process; and computing a composite depth map by selecting depth estimates from the raw depth map and the secondary depth map based on the confidence map.