A Depth Image Enhancement Method Based on Anisotropic Diffusion

Abstract

The invention discloses a depth image enhancement method based on anisotropic diffusion. The similarity among pixel points of a color image corresponding to a depth image is used as a basis of depth diffusion, and based on the known depth of the depth image, filling of a depth missing region of the depth image is finished. Through the depth image enhancement method based on the anisotropic diffusion, the defect that in a traditional depth enhancement method based on interpolation, edges of an object are blurry is overcome, meanwhile, the limit of the size of a wave filtering window in a depth enhancement method based on wave filtering is broken through, and the depth image enhancement method based on the anisotropic diffusion has the advantages of being high in universality, high in robustness and the like. The depth image enhancement method based on the anisotropic diffusion can be widely used for a variety of depth images which have missing depth regions, and in a practical application process, based on the color image and the depth image which are in correspondence to each other, a good depth image missing region filling effect can be achieved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a depth image enhancement method, in particular to an enhancement method based on anisotropic diffusion for filling missing regions of a depth image. Background technique [0002] The depth image is used to express the distance of each point in the scene relative to the camera. Depth images are widely used in various applications of computer vision, which provide more possibilities for methods such as tracking, classification, and recognition in computer vision. [0003] The acquisition of depth images includes active acquisition and passive acquisition. Among them, the binocular stereo vision method is commonly used in passive acquisition, which uses two cameras separated by a certain distance to acquire scene images at the same time, and finally generates a depth image by using the geometric relationship between the two cameras; while active acquisition includes lidar, Methods such as structured light are characterized by t...

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However, most of the depth images obtained by various existing devices have the problem of lack of depth information: the depth images obtained based on binocular stereo matching cannot obtain accurate depth information at long distances due to the limitation of the baseline length. Accurate depth information cannot be obtained in non-overlapping areas of the field of view of two cameras; depth images acquired by Microsoft’s Kinect are often affected by factors such as special material surfaces, ranging ranges, and object occlusions, and there are often partial depth missing areas; Data, the depth image obtained through coordinate conversion has accurate depth values, but the lidar scanning points are reflected in the depth image as discrete and sparse depth values, and there are a large number of depth missing areas on the depth image

However, this filter-based depth image enhancement is often very sensitive to the size of the depth-missing area. If the depth-missing area is large and the window size used for filtering is small, the depth-missing area cannot be filled.

However, if the window size is large, it will be difficult to preserve the detail information in the depth image.

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