Depth Image Representation for Image Based Rendering

Acknowledgments First, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. P J Narayanan, who gave me the opportunity to work in a very interesting area, image based rendering. He gave me lot of support and freedom to try various methods,in the process of developing solutions to the problems,solved during my,Masters. He is in- volved in teaching me, starting from reading the literature efciently and effectively, writing reports and giving technical presentations. He has given a lot of valuable personal advice to steer my career in right track. I would like to thank members of the CVIT lab for all the fun I had with them in various meetings, discussions and get togethers. Especially, I would like to thank Uday Kumar Visesh, Soumyajit Deb and Karteek Alahari, who were involved in discussions, editing and writing this thesis. I would like to thank Soumyajit, Karteek and Kiran Varanasi for tirelessly reading and correcting this thesis. I would like to thank the Interactive Visual Media group of Microsoft Research for the dance sequence;