Este seminario está cofinanciado por el Proyecto PRO-MULTIDIS-CM (Programa S - 0505 / TIC / 0233, IV PRICIT, CM) y por el Programa Oficial de Posgrado en Ingeniería Informática y de Telecomunicación del Departamento de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
An overview of 3D and free viewpoint video is given with special focus on related standardization activities in MPEG. Free viewpoint video allows the user to freely navigate within real world visual scenes, as known from virtual worlds in computer graphics. Examples are shown, highlighting standards conform realization using MPEG-4. Then the principles of 3D video are introduced providing the user with a 3D depth impression of the observed scene. Example systems are described again focusing on their realization based on MPEG-4. Finally multi-view video coding is described as a key component for 3D and free viewpoint video systems. The conclusion is that the necessary technology including standard media formats for 3D and free viewpoint is available or will be available in the near future, and that there is a clear demand from industry and user side for such applications. 3DTV at home and free viewpoint video on DVD will be available soon, and will create huge new markets.
Aljoscha Smolić received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1996, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical and information engineering from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 2001.
He joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, Germany in 1994 and is employed as Project Manager since 2001. He has been involved in several national and international research projects, where he conducted research in various fields of video processing, video coding, computer vision and computer graphics and published more than 80 referred papers in these fields. In this context he has been involved in ISO standardization activities where he contributed to the development of the multimedia standards MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. In current projects he is responsible for research in free viewpoint and 3D video processing and coding, augmented reality, 3D reconstruction and video-based rendering. Since 2003 he is Adjunct Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and teaches Multimedia Communications and Statistical Communications Theory.
Dr. Smolić received the “Rudolf-Urtlel-Award” of the German Society for Technology in TV and Cinema (FKTG) for his dissertation in 2002. He is Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication and Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on CSVT and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is Committee Member of several conferences, including ICIP, ICME, and EUSIPCO. He chaired the MPEG ad hoc group on 3DAV pioneering standards for 3D video. Currently he is editor of the Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) standard and co-chairs a working group of the JVT for MVC.