Towards a Diminished Reality System that Preserves Structures and Works in Real-time

Hugo Álvarez, Jon Arrieta, David Oyarzun

2017

Abstract

This paper presents a Diminished Reality system that is able to propagate textures as well as structures with a low computational cost, almost in real-time. An existing inpainting algorithm is optimized in order to reduce the high computational cost by implementing some Computer Vision techniques. Although some of the presented optimizations can be applied to a single static image directly, the global system is mainly oriented to video sequences, where temporal coherence ideas can be applied. Given that, a novel pipeline is proposed to maintain the visual quality of the reconstructed image area without the need of calculating everything again despite slow camera motions. To the best of our knowledge, the prototype presented in this paper is the only Diminished Reality system focused on structure propagation that works near real-time. Apart from the technical description, this paper presents an extensive experimental study of the system, which evaluates the optimizations in terms of time and quality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Álvarez H., Arrieta J. and Oyarzun D. (2017). Towards a Diminished Reality System that Preserves Structures and Works in Real-time . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-225-7, pages 334-343. DOI: 10.5220/0006097803340343

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp17,
author={Hugo Álvarez and Jon Arrieta and David Oyarzun},
title={Towards a Diminished Reality System that Preserves Structures and Works in Real-time},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={334-343},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006097803340343},
isbn={978-989-758-225-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Towards a Diminished Reality System that Preserves Structures and Works in Real-time
SN - 978-989-758-225-7
AU - Álvarez H.
AU - Arrieta J.
AU - Oyarzun D.
PY - 2017
SP - 334
EP - 343
DO - 10.5220/0006097803340343