This paper addresses the synthesis of virtual views of people from multiple view image sequences. We consider the target area of the multiple camera “3D Virtual Studio” with the ultimate goal of capturing video-realistic dynamic human appearance. A mesh based reconstruction framework is introduced to initialise and optimise the shape of a dynamic scene for view-dependent rendering, making use o...

This paper addresses the synthesis of novel views of people from multiple view video. We consider the target area of the multiple camera 3D Virtual Studio for broadcast production with the requirement for free-viewpoint video synthesis for a virtual camera with the same quality as captured video. A framework is introduced for view-dependent optimisation of reconstructed surface shape to align m...

We propose a technique to project a synthesized texture onto 3D textureless real objects without contact, which can be applied for example, in medical or archaeological applications. Our system uses two cameras and one projector. By projecting a suitable set of light patterns onto the surface of a 3D real object and by capturing images with one or several cameras, a large number of corresponden...

In this paper, we propose our work on camera network using the MIMO Y channel. In this setup, each camera delivers information for connected cameras via the intermediate relay while receiving side information from other cameras. As an example for demonstrating the validity of proposed scheme, we introduce an interesting application of our camera network to sports activity analysis, where a virt...

Image-based rendering systems are designed to render a virtual view of a scene based on a set of images and correspondences between these images. This approach is attractive as it does not require explicit scene reconstruction. In this paper we identify that the level of realism of the virtual view is dependent on the camera set-up and the quality of the image analysis and synthesis processes. ...

In this work, we generate multi-view images from stereoscopic texture images. After we estimate a disparity map using a stereo matching method, we detect an occlusion area in the acquired disparity map and refine the initial disparity values of the occlusion area. The refined disparity map is enhanced by a joint bilateral filter for boundary matching to improve the quality of synthesized multi-...

We consider multiview video compression: the problem of jointly compressing multiple views of a scene recorded by different cameras. To take advantage of the correlation between views, we compare the performance of disparity compensated view prediction and view synthesis prediction to independent coding of all views using H.264/AVC. The proposed view synthesis prediction technique works by firs...

Free-viewpoint Television (FTV) is becoming an exciting media that enable us to view a 3D scene by freely changing our viewpoint. Considered as ultimate 3DTV, FTV can provide arbitrary views using captured real views. Essentially, it is a re-sampling problem in the ray-space or light field. The key to address this re-sampling problem is synthesizing virtual views by captured reference views alo...

Current teleconferencing configuration and synthesis solutions tend to be rigid and system specific. We present a new extendable system created from building blocks defined as Stereo Camera Analysis Blocks (SCAB). SCABs consist of axe-parallel narrow baseline stereo cameras. We define a new approach to virtual view creation from multiple images in our Multi-View Synthesis (MVS) block. MVS conta...