Multi-pass add-on tool for coherent and complete view synthesis

A method of processing an image, comprising:

• re-ordering one or more patches from a plurality of views based on one or more of relative position and orientation related information for a desired synthesized view;
• selecting a respective set of views to be used for each of two or more view synthesis passes;
• performing the two or more view synthesis passes for the desired synthesized view using only patches belonging to the selected set of views for each pass to provide two or more intermediate view synthesis results;
• and
• masking and merging the two or more intermediate view synthesis results to provide a final view synthesis result.

At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• re-order one or more patches from a plurality of views based on one or more of relative position and orientation related information for a desired synthesized view;
• select a respective set of views to be used for each of two or more view synthesis passes;
• perform the two or more view synthesis passes for the desired synthesized view using only patches belonging to the selected set of views for each pass to provide two or more intermediate view synthesis results;
• and
• mask and merge the two or more intermediate view synthesis results to provide a final view synthesis result.