Motion vector refinement for frame rate up conversion on 3D video

With the rapid development of digital video technology, frame rate up conversion is widely used. In this paper, a novel motion vector refinement method for frame rate up conversion on depth based 3D video is proposed. Our method involves two major stages in frame rate up conversion which are motion estimation and motion vector filtering. In the motion estimation process, the depth constraint to block matching algorithm is introduced in the bi-directional motion estimation method to obtain the motion vectors. In the motion vector filtering process, a depth-guided filter is designed to enhance the consistence of motions in the same depth plane. The refined motion vectors are used for frame interpolation. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.45 dB gain in terms of PSNR on average and improves the visual quality of the frame rate up-converted video. © 2013 IEEE