Realtime System of Free Viewpoint Television
Purim Na Bangchang, Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto · The Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers · 2005
In this paper, we propose a new 3D visual system, named “Free Viewpoint Television or” FTV, which can acquire, process, and display any 3D scene in realtime. With this FTV system, users can freely control their own viewpoint and direction. The idea is based on the concept of ray-space, where 3D information can be represented by a group of light rays. A collection of light rays is obtained through an array of cameras, while the missing ray informationbetween cameras is generated by interpolation. The first prototype based on this concept had both good image quality and a fast display rate.