由於使用時差測距(Time-of-Flight)攝影機取得的深度圖(depth map)有許多雜訊點，若是將此深度圖用於3D相關應用如3D重建，會產生低品質的3D模型，因此去除深度圖上的雜訊就相當重要。本論文提出一種新的雜訊去除組合方法，結合時域型(temporal)去雜訊法和雙邊濾波器(bilateral filter)來增進深度圖品質。時域型雜訊去除，會先在所有從不同角度拍攝的深度圖中選定中央圖像和其左右鄰近的多張圖像，藉由同時參考多張圖像相對應的點並更新深度值來達到去雜訊的效果。雜訊去除的程序主要分為座標系統的對齊和去雜訊兩步驟，首先會將中央圖像鄰近的多張圖像位移到相同的座標系統且擁有共用旋轉軸，接著將多張鄰近圖像旋轉至和中央圖像同方向以達近似重合。找到鄰近圖像在中央圖像上每個點的對應點後，同時參考多張圖像相對應的深度值來取平均或中值作為新的深度值，如此產生了初步的時域型雜訊去除深度圖。最後再利用雙邊濾波器來進一步去雜訊並保留邊緣。實驗結果顯示本論文提出的去雜訊法和其他方法比起來，錯誤率最低、增進率最高並保留較清楚的邊緣。

As a result of noises on the depth maps captured by a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera, 3D applications such as 3D reconstruction will generate low quality models. Hence, the process of denoisng depth maps is important. This study proposes a novel combination of denoising methods with the idea of the temporal denoising plus a bilateral filter. The temporal denoising represents the way that this study firstly selects a middle frame with multiple adjacent frames from all depth maps captured from different angles and then renew each depth value in the middle frame by referencing these frames. There are two main steps in our denoising process which contains an alignment step and a denoising step. The first step is to move all points to the same coordinate system with shared rotation axis and rotate neighbor frames to the same direction as the middle frame. After finding the corresponding points in each frame, we then evaluates the mean or median depth values of the corresponding points among these frames to generate a preliminary denoised depth map. Finally, the bilateral filter is subsequently applied to smooth the remaining noises while preserving edges. The experiment results support that the proposed method has the highest improvement in denoising while preserving clear edges when comparing to other methods.

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