  Background and aim: Most of the Mixed Reality models used in the surgical
telepresence are suffering from discrepancies in the boundary area and
spatial-temporal inconsistency due to the illumination variation in the video
frames. The aim behind this work is to propose a new solution that helps
produce the composite video by merging the augmented video of the surgery site
and the virtual hand of the remote expertise surgeon. The purpose of the
proposed solution is to decrease the processing time and enhance the accuracy
of merged video by decreasing the overlay and visualization error and removing
occlusion and artefacts. Methodology: The proposed system enhanced the mean
value cloning algorithm that helps to maintain the spatial-temporal consistency
of the final composite video. The enhanced algorithm includes the 3D mean value
coordinates and improvised mean value interpolant in the image cloning process,
which helps to reduce the sawtooth, smudging and discolouration artefacts
around the blending region. Results: As compared to the state of the art
solution, the accuracy in terms of overlay error of the proposed solution is
improved from 1.01mm to 0.80mm whereas the accuracy in terms of visualization
error is improved from 98.8% to 99.4%. The processing time is reduced to 0.173
seconds from 0.211 seconds. Conclusion: Our solution helps make the object of
interest consistent with the light intensity of the target image by adding the
space distance that helps maintain the spatial consistency in the final merged
video.
