Depth+Texture Representation for Image Based Rendering

Image Based Rendering holds a lot of promise for navigat- ing through a real world scene without modeling it manu- ally. Different representations have been proposed for IBR in the literature. In this paper, we argue that a representa- tion using depth maps and texture images from a number of viewpoints is a rich and viable representation for IBR. We discuss different aspects of this representation includ- ing capture, representation, compression and rendering. We show several results to show how the representation can be used to model and render complex scenes.