Novel View Synthesis using Needle-Map Correspondence

Interest in view interpolation and novel view synthesis is growing. In this paper we show how dense correspondence can be found between needle-maps generated using shape-from-shading, which in turn can be used to generate new needle-maps. From these we can produce novel intermediate views, and also estimates of how each intermediate view would look under different lighting conditions. The approach offers the prospect of creating large sets of realistic views of a scene under different viewing and lighting conditions from a small number of original images.