V. Couture, M.S. Langer, S. Roy. Panoramic Stereo Video Textures, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.
Abstract
A panoramic stereo (or omnistereo) pair of images provides depth
information from stereo up to 360 degrees around a central observer.
Because omnistereo lenses or mirrors do not yet exist, synthesizing
omnistereo images requires multiple stereo camera positions and
baseline orientations. Recent omnistereo methods stitch together
many small field of view images called slits which are captured by
one or two cameras following a circular motion. However, these
methods produce omnistereo images for static scenes only. The
situation is much more challenging for dynamic scenes since
stitching needs to occur over both space and time and should
synchronize the motion between left and right views as much as
possible.
This paper presents the first ever method for synthesizing panoramic
stereo video textures. The method uses full frames rather than
slits and uses blending across seams rather than smoothing or
matching based on graph cuts. The method produces loopable panoramic
stereo videos that can be displayed up to 360 degrees around a
viewer.