3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video - Technologies, Applications and MPEG Standards

Author

Smolic, Aljoscha ; Mueller, Karsten ; Merkle, Philipp ; Fehn, Christoph ; Kauff, Peter ; Eisert, Peter ; Wiegand, Thomas

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 July 2006

Firstpage

2161

Lastpage

2164

Abstract

An overview of 3D and free viewpoint video is given in this paper with special focus on related standardization activities in MPEG. Free viewpoint video allows the user to freely navigate within real world visual scenes, as known from virtual worlds in computer graphics. Examples are shown, highlighting standards conform realization using MPEG-4. Then the principles of 3D video are introduced providing the user with a 3D depth impression of the observed scene. Example systems are described again focusing on their realization based on MPEG-4. Finally multi-view video coding is described as a key component for 3D and free viewpoint video systems. The conclusion is that the necessary technology including standard media formats for 3D and free viewpoint is available or will be available in the near future, and that there is a clear demand from industry and user side for such applications. 3D TV at home and free viewpoint video on DVD will be available soon, and will create huge new markets

Keywords

data compression; digital versatile discs; three-dimensional television; video coding; 3D TV; DVD; MPEG standard; computer graphics; free viewpoint video system; market; multiview video coding; standard media format; visual scene; Application software; Computer graphics; DVD; Layout; MPEG 4 Standard; MPEG standards; Navigation; Standardization; Three dimensional TV; Video coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0366-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2006.262683

Filename

4037061