Emerging Technologies for 3D Video

Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering

With the expectation of greatly enhanced user experience, 3D video is widely perceived as the next major advancement in video technology. In order to fulfil the expectation of enhanced user experience, 3D video calls for new technologies addressing efficient content creation, representation/coding, transmission and display.

Emerging Technologies for 3D Video will deal with all aspects involved in 3D video systems and services, including content acquisition and creation, data representation and coding, transmission, view synthesis, rendering, display technologies, human perception of depth and quality assessment.

Key features:

• Offers an overview of key existing technologies for 3D video
• Provides a discussion of advanced research topics and future technologies
• Reviews relevant standardization efforts
• Addresses applications and implementation issues
• Includes contributions from leading researchers

The book is a comprehensive guide to 3D video systems and services suitable for all those involved in this field, including engineers, practitioners, researchers as well as professors, graduate and undergraduate students, and managers making technological decisions about 3D video.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Content Creation
1. Consumer Depth Cameras and Applications
2. SFTI: Space-from-Time Imaging
3. 2D to 3D video conversion – Overview and perspectives
4. Spatial Plasticity – Dual Camera Configurations and Variable Interaxial

Part 2: Representation, Coding and Transmission
5. Disparity Estimation Techniques
6. 3D video representation and formats
7. Depth Video Coding Technologies
8. Depth Based 3D Video Formats and Coding Technology
9. Coding for interactive navigation in high-dimensional media data
10. Adaptive Streaming of Multi-view Video over P2P Networks

Part 3: Rendering and Synthesis
11. Image Domain Warping for Stereoscopic 3D Applications?
12. Image Based Rendering and the sampling of the Plenoptic Function
13. A Framemework for Image-Based Stereoscopic View Synthesis from Asynchronous Multi-View Data

Part 4: Display Technologies
14. Signal Processing for 3D displays
15. 3D Display technologies
16. Integral Imaging
17. 3D light-field display technologies

Part 5: Human Visual System and Quality Assessment
18. 3D media and the human visual system
19. 3D video quality assessment

Part 6: Applications and implementation
20. Interactive omnidirectional indoor tour
21. View Selection
22. 3D video on mobile
23. Graphics composition for multiview displays
24. Real-time disparity estimation engine for high definition 3DTV applications