A large amount of studies on online review has been conducted, most of which are based on studying English-speaking reviewers. However, it is unclear whether customers who speak other languages, such as Finnish, German and Japanese, would exhibit similar preference in defining the helpfulness of online review or not? There is a lack of knowledge on how different cultural backgrounds affect user...

We introduce a digital hologram generation of a real 3D object captured by a depth camera. The depth camera is employing a time multiplexed concept for color and depth image acquisition in a single chip sensor. The 3D information, point cloud, corresponding to the real scene, is extracted from taken image pairs, a gray texture and a depth map by a depth camera. The extracted point cloud is used...

In this paper we will present the concept of a modular three dimensional broadcast chain, that allows for an evolutionary introduction of depth perception into the context of 2D digital TV. The work is performed within the framework of the European Information Society Technologies (IST) project “Advanced Three-dimensional Television System Technologies” (ATTEST), bringing together the expertise...

In this paper, we present a system to redistribute computational power in plane sweeping. Plane sweeping allows the generation of novel viewpoints of a scene by testing different depth hypotheses across input cameras. Typical plane sweeping approaches incorporate a uniform depth plane distribution to investigate different depth hypotheses to generate a depth map. When the scene consists of a sp...

In addition to depth cues afforded by binocular vision, the brain processes relative motion signals to perceive depth. When an observer translates relative to their visual environment, the relative motion of objects at different distances (motion parallax) provides a powerful cue to three-dimensional scene structure. Although perception of depth based on motion parallax has been studied extensi...

Multiview video in “texture-plus-depth” format enables decoder to synthesize freely chosen intermediate views for enhanced visual experience. Nevertheless, transmission of multiple texture and depth maps over bandwidthconstrained and loss-prone networks is challenging, especially for conferencing applications with stringent deadlines. In this paper, we examine the problem of loss-resilient codi...

Following another person's gaze in order to achieve joint attention is an important skill in human social interactions. This work analyzes geometric aspects of the gaze following problem and proposes a learning-based computational model for the emergence of gaze following skills in infants. The model acquires advanced gaze following skills by learning associations between caregiver head poses a...

Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) is a method to represent a stereoscopic content. The DIBR consists of a monoscopic center view and an associated per-pixel depth map. Using these two components and given depth condition from a user, the DIBR renders left and right views. The advantages of DIBR are numerous. The user can choose not only the monoscopic or stereoscopic view selectively, but also...