Methods and apparatus to synthesize six degree-of-freedom views from sparse rgb-depth inputs

A method, comprising:

• reprojecting a first red-green-blue (RGB) depth view and a second RGB depth view to a target camera position to obtain a first reprojected view and a second reprojected view;
• combining the first reprojected view and the second reprojected view into a blended view data based on a first weight map and a second weight map, the blended view including missing RGB depth information due to at least one of an occlusion or a disocclusion;
• and
• generating a six degree-of-freedom synthesized view of the blended view data, the synthesized view including the missing RGB depth information.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to at least:

• reproject a first red-green-blue (RGB) depth view and a second RGB depth view to a target camera position to obtain a first reprojected view and a second reprojected view;
• combine the first reprojected view and the second reprojected view into a blended view data based on a first weight map and a second weight map, the blended view including missing RGB depth information due to at least one of an occlusion or a disocclusion;
• and
• generate a six degree-of-freedom synthesized view of the blended view data, the synthesized view including the missing RGB depth information.