We propose a method for converting a single RGB-D input image into a 3D photo - a multi-layer representation for novel view synthesis that contains hallucinated color and depth structures in regions occluded in the original view. We use a Layered Depth Image with explicit pixel connectivity as underlying representation, and present a learning-based inpainting model that synthesizes new local color-and-depth content into the occluded region in a spatial context-aware manner. The resulting 3D photos can be efficiently rendered with motion parallax using standard graphics engines. We validate the effectiveness of our method on a wide range of challenging everyday scenes and show fewer artifacts compared with the state of the arts.
@article{arxiv.2004.04727,
title = {3D Photography using Context-aware Layered Depth Inpainting},
author = {Meng-Li Shih and Shih-Yang Su and Johannes Kopf and Jia-Bin Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04727},
year = {2020}
}