Overview of 3D Video technology

12/02/2019

I found this paper very interesting and i think its a worthwhile read.

[A Three-Dimensional Video (3D Video) system is able to offer to the user a better and deeper experience of video contents providing both the perception of the scene's depth and the ability to freely browse the scene itself. 3D Video has gained significant interest during the last years and due to the advances in acquisition processes and display technologies and it is now wide spreading in medical, entertainment, and communication industries. So, a number of novel 3D video applications are getting feasible [1] due to a certain improvement of capture and display technologies supported by advanced Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) techniques. 3D video applications can be grouped under three main categories: Free-viewpoint video (FVV), Three-Dimensional Television (3DTV), and Immersive teleconferencing. Figure 1(a) illustrates these new trends introducing the end-toend architectures of different possible applications [2]. In this illustration, a multi-view video is first captured and then encoded by a multi-view video encoder. Then, a server transmits the coded bitstreams to different clients with different capabilities. At the final stage, the coded video is decoded and rendered with different tools according to the application scenario and the capabilities of the receiver.