In order to effectively fill the common holes in the virtual view imag e,we propose a novel approach of holes filling based on the backward 3D image warping method.In this method, first,the left reference view and right reference view are warped to the virtual view position with the t echnology of 3D image warping and the corresponding depth map information,respectively.To eliminate the ghosting art ifacts in the virtual view image, we enlarge the holes region in the warped virtual views with image dilating meth od.Second,the boundary of holes region is obtained and then backward warped to the original left and ri ght reference views with 3D image warping.Based on the relative position between holes and boundary,the c orresponding pixels in the reference views are chosen to fill the holes in the warped virtual views.Finally ,the holes filled warped virtual views are blended,and the final virtual image is obtained.Experimen tal results show that the proposed method can effectively solve the problem of filling foreground pixels into the b ackground areas with the traditional neighborhood interpolation method and image in-painting method.The proposed me thod also can obtain better subjective visual effects and achieve higher objective peak signal-to-noise ra tio.