FaDIV-Syn: Fast Depth-Independent View Synthesis using Soft Masks and Implicit Blending. (arXiv:2106.13139v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

Novel view synthesis is required in many robotic applications, such as VR
teleoperation and scene reconstruction. Existing methods are often too slow for
these contexts, cannot handle dynamic scenes, and are limited by their explicit
depth estimation stage, where incorrect depth predictions can lead to large
projection errors. Our proposed method runs in real time on live streaming data
and avoids explicit depth estimation by efficiently warping input images into
the target frame for a range of assumed depth planes. …

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