Ray space representation is an effective approach to realizing real time free viewpoint video system with complicated scenes. A feature point based ray space interpolation method is proposed for arbitrary viewpoint image rendering in this paper. At first
feature points of ray space slice or image are extracted
then
considering occluded problem
the feature points are matched based on correlation based criterion
and each ray space slice is segmented into different regions. Finally
an interpolation operation is applied to the segmented regions. Experimental results show that the proposed method can interpolate ray space data fast and render arbitrary viewpoint images
and PSNR of the interpolated ray space data is high
as well as quality of the rendered arbitrary viewpoint images.