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Abstract

Blurring depth edges and texture copy artifacts are challenging issues for guided depth map upsampling. They are caused by the inconsistency between depth edges and corresponding color edges. In this paper, we extend the well-known Joint Bilateral Upsampling (JBU) (Kopf et al. 2007) with a novel non-convex optimization framework for guided depth map upsampling, which is denoted as Non-Convex JBU (NCJBU). We show that the proposed NCJBU can well handle the edge inconsistency by making use of the property of both the guidance color image and the depth map. Through comprehensive experiments, we show that our NCJBU can preserve sharp depth edges and properly suppress texture copy artifacts. In addition, we present a data driven scheme to properly determine the parameter in our model such that fine details and sharp depth edges are well preserved even for a large upsampling factor (e.g., 8 ×). Experimental results on both simulated and real data show the effectiveness of our method.

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  1. Of course, there are plenty of variants of JBU. We just point out a small fraction of them.

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This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2012CB719903, the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61221003, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 41071256, 41571402, the National Science Foundation of China Youth Program under Grant 41101386.

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Lu, X., Guo, Y., Liu, N. et al. Non-convex joint bilateral guided depth upsampling. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 15521–15544 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-5131-x

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