Exploitation of 3D video technologies

Author

Matsuyama, Takashi

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Informatics, Kyoto Univ., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

1-2 March 2004

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

14

Abstract

3D video is not an artificial CG animation but a real 3D movie recording the full 3D shape, motion, and precise surface color & texture of real world objects. It enables us to observe real object behaviors from any viewpoints as well as to see pop-up 3D object images. We believe the exploitation of 3D video technologies will open up a new world of versatile cultural and social activities: visual communication, entertainment, training & learning, archiving, and so on. We give an overview of our research attainments so far obtained: (1) a PC cluster system with distributed active cameras for real-time 3D shape reconstruction, (2) a dynamic 3D mesh deformation method for obtaining accurate 3D object shape, (3) a texture mapping algorithm for high fidelity visualization, and (4) user friendly 3D video editing system.

Keywords

data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; image reconstruction; image texture; mesh generation; real-time systems; rendering (computer graphics); video cameras; video signal processing; 3D mesh deformation; 3D video technology; PC cluster system; distributed active cameras; real 3D movie recording; real-time 3D shape reconstruction; texture mapping algorithm; user friendly 3D video editing system; Animation; Cameras; Character generation; Cultural differences; Global communication; Motion pictures; Shape; Surface texture; Video recording; Visual communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics Research for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, 2004. ICKS 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2150-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICKS.2004.1313403

Filename

1313403