Depth map Super-Resolution based on joint dictionary learning

Although Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera can provide real-time depth information from a real scene, the resolution of depth map captured by ToF camera is rather limited compared to HD color cameras, and thus it cannot be directly used in 3D reconstruction. In order to handle this problem, this paper proposes a novel compressive sensing (CS) and dictionary learning based depth map super-resolution (SR) method, which transforms a low resolution depth map to a high resolution depth map. Different from previous depth map SR methods, this algorithm uses a joint dictionary learning method with both low and high resolution depth maps, and this method also builds a sparse vector classification method which is used in depth map SR. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods for depth map super-resolution.