title: Stereoscopic video synthesis from a monocular video.
abstract: This paper presents an automatic and robust approach to synthesize stereoscopic videos from ordinary monocular videos acquired by commodity video cameras. Instead of recovering the depth map, the proposed method synthesizes the binocular parallax in stereoscopic video directly from the motion parallax in monocular video. The synthesis is formulated as an optimization problem via introducing a cost function of the stereoscopic effects, the similarity, and the smoothness constraints. The optimization selects the most suitable frames in the input video for generating the stereoscopic video frames. With the optimized selection, convincing and smooth stereoscopic video can be synthesized even by simple constant-depth warping. No user interaction is required. We demonstrate the visually plausible results obtained given the input clips acquired by ordinary handheld video camera.
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China. zhangguofeng@cad.zju.edu.cn
authors.forename: Guofeng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.forename: Xueying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Tien-Tsin
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Hujun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D010780:Photogrammetry / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*