FLOATING POLYGON SOUP

This paper presents a new representation called floating polygon soup for applications like 3DTV and FTV (Free Viewpoint Television). This representation is based on 3D polygons and takes as input MVD data. It extends the previously proposed polygon soup representation [1] which is appropriate for both compression, transmission and rendering stages. The floating polygon soup con-serves these advantages while also taking into account misalignments at the view synthesis stage due to mod-eling errors. The idea for reducing these misalignments is to morph the 3D geometry depending on the current viewpoint. Results show that artifacts in virtual views are reduced and objective quality is increased. Index Terms — Multiview video plus depth, vir-tual view synthesis, 3D morphing, polygon soup. 1