Exploitation of 3D video technologies
Takashi Matsuyama · 2004
3D video is NOT an artificial CG animation but a real 3D movie recording the full 3D shape, motion, and precise sur-face color & texture of real world objects. It enables us to observe real object behaviors from any viewpoints as well as to see pop-up 3D object images. We believe the exploita-tion of 3D video technologies will open up a new world of versatile cultural and social activities: visual communica-tion, entertainment, training & learning, archiving, and so on. This paper gives an overview of our research attain-ments so far obtained: (1) a PC cluster system with dis-tributed active cameras for real-time 3D shape reconstruc-tion, (2) a dynamic 3D mesh deformation method for ob-taining accurate 3D object shape, (3) a texture mapping al-gorithm for high fidelity visualization, and (4) user friendly 3D video editing system. 1.