Development of methodology for extraction of depth for 2D-to-3D conversion

This paper presents semi-automatic method hybrid depth map generation using fusion of monocular cues. Depth Estimation is generally done using stereoscopic cameras. It is a difficult task to estimate depth from single view camera. In this paper, fusion of four monocular cues as-Motion cue, Linear perspectivecue, Aerial perspective cue and defocus are proposed for depth estimation using single camera. Bilateral filter is used to get a continuous depth map. The results show that the present system for estimation of depth based on monocular cues achieves better performance.