The sinking costs of producing digital video and its growing presence on the Internet suggest that it has potential for use in web-based learning technologies. However, there have been few investigations into how the kind of interaction one has with video impacts subsequent learning. In this in-progress study participants are asked to watch video of an expert taking apart a toaster and describi...

Video-plus-depth is an image sequence of synchronized color and depth images. As importance of video-plus-depth increases as an essential part of the next-generation multimedia applications, it is crucial to estimate accurate depth information from a real scene and to find a practical framework to use the immersive video in industry. In this chapter, we introduce a hybrid camera system composed...

An eye-contact display and camera system for video telephony is described in which a video camera looks through a conventional active matrix LC display. By removing the rear polarizer from the display, the camera can look through the display without seeing the information on the display. Display/camera multiplexing and color are achieved via a polarized projection illumination system. Color tri...