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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2019
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Sangwoon Kwak, Daejeon, KR;
Joungil Yun, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for generating a virtual viewpoint image by obtaining at least one input viewpoint image and warping pixels of the at least one input viewpoint image to a virtual viewpoint image coordinate system; mapping a patch to a first pixel of a plurality of pixels warped to the virtual viewpoint image coordinate system when a difference between a first depth value of the first pixel and a second depth value of a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold and mapping no patch to the first pixel when the difference is greater than the predetermined threshold; and generating the virtual viewpoint image by blending the plurality of pixels and/or the patch are provided.