Morphing a Stereogram into Hologram

TL;DR

This paper presents a fast, unsupervised method combining optical flow, morphing, and lightfield rendering to reconstruct and visualize 3D scenes from stereograms on headsets or monitors.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach integrating multiple techniques for real-time 3D scene reconstruction from stereoscopic images.

Findings

Effective visualization of virtual 3D behind stereograms

Potential for live 3D streaming with lookup table optimization

Fast and unsupervised reconstruction process

Abstract

This paper develops a simple and fast method to reconstruct reality from stereoscopic images. We bring together ideas from robust optical flow techniques, morphing deformations and lightfield 3D rendering in order to create unsupervised multiview images of a scene. The reconstruction algorithm provides a good visualization of the virtual 3D imagery behind stereograms upon display on a headset-free Looking Glass 3D monitor. We discuss the possibility of applying the method for live 3D streaming optimized via an associated lookup table.