Rendering of free-viewpoint video on the cloud
Mark Mallia, Carl James Debono · 2017
Mobile video consumption and applications are limited by the bandwidth of the communications channel and the resources on the devices. In this work, the latter limitations are alleviated through the use of the Cloud to render high definition video in free-viewpoint applications. A Cloud-based system is developed to port the free-viewpoint application into a distributed and multithreaded environment. Experimental results show that the main bottlenecks of the system have been eased and image quality analysis shows that the system preserves image quality. A significant speedup has been achieved through the execution of the Cloud-based system recording 21 times speedups for a 1024 × 768 resolution video.