Image Processing Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1
Introduction
Ahmet Kondoz and Tasos Dagiuklas
A significant amount of effort has been made by the research community towards
achieving immersive multi-view entertainment. Most of the effort has been targeted
at content acquisition and rendering/display technologies, or at delivery of
pre-encoded content rather than live content. A key feature of immersive commu-
nication is the ability for participants to interact with the remote environment, and
to detect and evaluate that interaction via their senses [
1
]. Thus, immersive com-
munication is evolving in a variety of directions. One possible goal is to emulate
reality, in which case high fidelity, realistic renderings are important and spatial
relationships must be maintained. Another possible goal is to achieve a state of
immersive communication that goes beyond reality, for example, enabling millions
of people to attend a lecture or a music concert in which everyone has a front row
seat [
1
,
2
].
Commercial world has an increasing interest over 3D media. This is due to the
fact that 3D media is viewed by the end user with glasses at home or cinemas. On
the other hand, 3D media at commercial site can be considered in the following
areas; delivery via broadcasting, via Video on Demand (VoD) and via storage
devices such as DVDs. Currently commercial solutions for display side use either
active or passive glasses for end users to experience 3D content. The content is
delivered either in a single frame with left and right resolution is reduced to half
(side-by-side or top-bottom methods), or left and right frames are packed in a single
frame with full resolution (frame-packing).
A. Kondoz
Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University in London, Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park, London E20 3ZH, UK
e-mail:
a.kondoz@lboro.ac.uk
T. Dagiuklas (
*
)
School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Parodos Aristotelous 18,
Patras 26335, Greece
e-mail:
dagiuklas@eap.gr
