Stereoscopic Image Inpainting by Minimizing an Energy Function

Abstract

As 3D display devices are becoming more popular, automatic editing methods such as inpainting for stereoscopic images have grown increasingly important. We propose an inpainting method for stereoscopic images by minimizing an energy function. We expand the conventional image inpainting method by adding a constraint condition that the corresponding pixel has the same intensity, thus enabling the proposed method to deliver more natural result. The proposed method can also be applied if there is an object with different visibility between the right and left input images by using the depth value of the other for depth map inpainting. Experimental results demonstrated the efficiency of our method.