With the expectation of greatly enhanced user experience, 3D video is widely perceived as the next major advancement in video technology. In order to fulfill 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.
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
About the Authors
- Frédéric Dufaux, Télécom Paris Tech, CNRS, France.
- Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Télécom Paris Tech, France.
- Marco Cagnazzo, Télécom Paris Tech, France.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 520 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (June 10, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118355113
- ISBN-13: 978-1118355114
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
- List Price: $135.00