A Kinect Based Immersive Video Conferencing System

This paper presents a Kinect Based Immersive Video Conferencing System (KIVC), which aims at improving the quality of user experience (QoE) in the future video conferencing communication. In our KIVC system, we choose Kinect as the camera for capturing the videos, benefiting from the state-of-the-art computer vision toolbox integrated in Kinect. In addition, in order to improve QoE with the constraint on the limited bandwidth, we develop a framework for KIVC system. Then, in our KIVC system, several advanced key technologies are adopted, e.g., fast object-based video coding for real-time data, human-computer interaction, and blurring processing for attracting human visual attention. Extensive experimental results show that our KIVC system has excellent performance and achieves a reliable real-time processing results. As such, the QoE can be enhanced with plenty of user-customized applications by KIVC.