View Morphing

Investigators: Steve Seitz, Chuck Dyer

Related Publications:
View Morphing, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96
Toward Image-Based Scene Representation Using View Morphing, Proc. ICPR 96
Physically-Valid View Synthesis by Image Interpolation, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Representation of Visual Scenes, 1995

Image morphing techniques can generate compelling 2D transitions between images. However, differences in object pose or viewpoint often cause unnatural distortions in image morphs that are difficult to correct manually. Using basic principles of projective geometry, this paper introduces a simple extension to image morphing that correctly handles 3D projective camera and scene transformations. The technique, called {\em view morphing}, works by prewarping two images prior to computing a morph and then postwarping the interpolated images. Because no knowledge of 3D shape is required, the technique may be applied to photographs and drawings, as well as rendered scenes. The ability to synthesize changes both in viewpoint and image structure affords a wide variety of interesting 3D effects via simple image transformations.

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View morphing between two images of an object taken from two different viewpoints produces the illusion of physically moving a virtual camera.
Click for an MPEG movie (184K) of this interpolation.

Morph between views of different faces produces simultaneous interpolation of facial shape, color, and pose.
Click for an MPEG movie (143K) of this interpolation.

The examples on this page were generated using an interactive method to specify a sparse feature correspondence between each pair of images. We also explored the use of stereo matching algorithms to generate the correspondence information. For more information on this topic and discussion of the orthographic case, click here .


More MPEG Movies of View Morphs

Two resolutions of Mona Lisa <--> Mona Lisa reflection:
Click for MPEG movie (84K) of Jude Shavlik <--> Chuck Dyer
Click for view interpolations computed automatically from stereo correspondence.

Mona Lisa Stereo Pair (cross your eyes and fuse them!)


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