Free-Viewpoint TV

Author

Tanimoto, Masayuki ; Tehrani, Mehrdad Panahpour ; Fujii, Toshiaki ; Yendo, Tomohiro

Volume

28

Issue

1

fYear

2011

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

76

Abstract

Free-viewpoint television (FTV) is an innovative visual media that enables us to view a three-dimensional (3-D) scene by freely changing our viewpoints. We proposed the concept of FTV and constructed the world???s first real-time system including the complete chain of operation from image capture to display. We also carried out the FTV on a single personal computer (PC) and a mobile player. FTV is based on the ray-space method that represents one ray in real space with one point in the ray-space. We have developed several types of ray capture systems and interfaces such as a 360° capture/ray-reproducing display. FTV is regarded as the ultimate 3DTV, since it can generate infinite number of views. Thus, FTV is the key to immersive communication. Regarding FTV as the most challenging 3-D media, the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has been conducting its international standardization activities. This article reviews FTV and its related technologies.

Keywords

digital television; three-dimensional television; FTV; MPEG; free-viewpoint TV; innovative visual media; motion picture experts group; single personal computer; ultimate 3DTV; Information processing; Interpolation; Real time systems; Receivers; Rendering (computer graphics); TV;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSP.2010.939077

Filename

5670636