隨著近幾年3D電影所帶起的風潮，再加上越來越普及的3D立體顯示器，立體視訊的需求量也越來越大，但是由於三維立體視訊內容的不足，如何利用現今龐大的二維平面視訊內容去生成三維立體視訊，便是一個很重要的課題。隨著裸眼立體顯示器之發展，虛擬視角影像亦隨著增加，使得立體視角產生更加困難。
本論文為改良深度影像繪圖法(depth-image-based rendering，DIBR)生成虛擬影像，提出基於運動向量之時空一致性補洞演算法(consistent spatio-temporal hole filling algorithm)。本演算法放棄使用平滑深度圖，以減少失真和運算時間，利用運動向量找到其他鄰近幀的相同物件作為參考，取得被前景阻擋的影像資訊，以填補利用基於深度影像繪圖法生成後所產生的空洞。本演算法能有效處理複雜背景的填補，且不會有橡皮板假影(rubber-sheets artifacts)及幾何失真(geometric distortion)出現，能有效增進虛擬影像的品質。

In recent years, along with the wave of 3D movies and the growth of popularity of 3D stereoscopic displays, the demand for stereoscopic videos becomes more and more serious. To overcome the lack of 3D video contents, a very important issue is how to convert the existing huge 2D video contents to generate 3D ones. For multiview autostereoscopic displays, the number of virtual viewing images is also increased to make the 3D view generation become harder.
In this thesis, a consistent spatio-temporal hole filling algorithm, which is based on motion information, the virtual image is proposed to improve the depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) algorithm. We abandon the use of smoothing depth map in order to reduce distortion and computation time, instead we use the motion vectors to find the same object in neighboring frames as a reference and retrieve the image information which is blocked by the foreground to fill the disocclusions generated by the depth-image-based rendering algorithm. The proposed algorithm can deal with the hole-filling for complex background effectively. Simulations show that we could avoid most rubber-sheets artifacts and geometric distortions and effectively improve the quality of the generated virtual images.

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