Michael Wimmer
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Cost Volume Refinement for Depth Prediction
João L. Cardoso, Nuno Goncalves, Michael Wimmer
Auto-TLDR; Refining the Cost Volume for Depth Prediction from Light Field Cameras
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Light-field cameras are becoming more popular in the consumer market. Their data redundancy allows, in theory, to accurately refocus images after acquisition and to predict the depth of each point visible from the camera. Combined, these two features allow for the generation of full-focus images, which is impossible in traditional cameras. Multiple methods for depth prediction from light fields (or stereo) have been proposed over the years. A large subset of these methods relies on cost-volume estimates -- 3D objects where each layer represents a heuristic of whether each point in the image is at a certain distance from the camera. Generally, this volume is used to regress a disparity map, which is then refined for better results. In this paper, we argue that refining the cost volumes is superior to refining the disparity maps in order to further increase the accuracy of depth predictions. We propose a set of cost-volume refinement algorithms and show their effectiveness.