Evolution of stereoscopic and three-dimensional video

摘要

In the last years two European projects – DISTIMA and PANORAMA – were working on stereoscopic and three-dimensional (3-D) video. While DISTIMA made it possible to transmit stereoscopic video compatible to MPEG 2 in real time, PANORAMA develops a 3-D video system: viewpoint adaptive visualisation of scenes providing look-around-capability. This paper describes selected parts of the work performed in the two projects: the DISTIMA real-time hardware for the MPEG2 compatible transmission of stereoscopic video, the DISTIMA activities in the area of region and object-based stereoscopic coding, the PANORAMA real-time hardware development for 3-D video based on disparity estimation and disparity compensated interpolation of intermediate views and the PANORAMA software development for 3-D video based on 3-D reconstruction and 3-D computer graphics.