Abstract
Recent advances of ToF depth sensor devices enables us to easily retrieve scene depth data with high frame rates. However, the resolution of the depth map captured from these devices is much lower than that of color images and the depth data suffers from the optical noise effects. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm that upsamples depth map captured by ToF depth cameras and reduces noise. The upsampling is carried out by applying plane based interpolation to the groups of points similar to planar structures and depth variance based joint bilateral upsampling to curved or bumpy surface points. For dividing the depth map into piecewise planar areas, we apply superpixel segmentation and graph component labeling. In order to distinguish planar areas and curved areas, we evaluate the reliability of detected plane structures. Compared with other state-of-the-art algorithms, our method is observed to produce an upsampled depth map that is smoothed and closer to the ground truth depth map both visually and numerically. Since the algorithm is parallelizable, it can work in real-time by utilizing highly parallel processing capabilities of modern commodity GPUs.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICPRAM 2015 - 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Proceedings |
Publisher | SciTePress |
Pages | 150-157 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789897580772 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 2015 Jan 10 → 2015 Jan 12 |
Other
Other | 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2015 |
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Country | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 15/1/10 → 15/1/12 |
Keywords
- Denoising
- Depth map
- GPU
- Plane fitting
- ToF depth sensor
- Upsampling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition