3D LAMP: A new layered panoramic representation

In this paper a compact representation, 3D Layered, Adaptive-resolution and Multi-perspective Panorama (LAMP), is proposed for representing large scale and 3D scenes with occlusion. Two kinds of 3D LAMP representations are constructed, i.e. the relief-like LAMP and the image-based LAMP, both of which concisely represent almost all the information from a long image sequence. The relief-like LAMP is basically a single extended multi-perspective panoramic view image with both texture and depth values, but each pixel has multiple values to represent results of occlusion recovery and resolution enhancement. The image-based LAMP, on the other hand, consists of a set of multi-perspective layers, each of which has both texture and depth maps, with adaptive time-sampling scales depending on depths of scene points. Several examples of 3D LAMP construction for real image, sequences are given. The 3D LAMP is a concise and powerful representation for image-based rendering.