Multiview Imaging and 3DTV

Akira Kubota, Aljoscha Smolic, Marcus Magnor, Masayuki Tanimoto, Tsuhan Chen, Cha Zhang
2007 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine  
M ultiview imaging (MVI) has attracted increasing attention, thanks to the rapidly dropping cost of digital cameras. This opens a wide variety of interesting new research topics and applications, such as virtual view synthesis, highperformance imaging, image/video segmentation, object tracking/recognition, environmental surveillance, remote education, industrial inspection, 3DTV, and free viewpoint TV (FTV) [9], [10] . While some of these tasks can be handled with conventional single view
more » ... /video, the availability of multiple views of the scene significantly broadens the field of applications, while enhancing performance and user experience. 3DTV and FTV are some of the most important applications of MVI and are new types of media that expand the user experience beyond what is offered by traditional media. They have been developed by the convergence of new technologies from computer graphics, computer vision, multimedia, and related fields. 3DTV, also referred to as stereo TV, offers a three-dimesional (3-D) depth impression of the observed scene, while FTV allows for an interactive Multiview Imaging and 3DTV
doi:10.1109/msp.2007.905873 fatcat:puhcijonujbibgldjgif2fkzwa