This survey paper discusses the three-dimensional image processing challenges posed by
present and future immersive telecommunications, especially immersive video conferencing …

This paper presents details of a system that allows for an evolutionary introduction of depth
perception into the existing 2D digital TV framework. The work is part of the European …

Due to enormous progress in the areas of auto-stereoscopic 3D displays, digital video
broadcast and computer vision algorithms, 3D television (3DTV) has reached a high …

A high-quality three-dimensional (3-D) broadcast service (3-D TV) is becoming increasingly
feasible based on various recent technological developments combined with an enhanced …

Interactivity in the sense of being able to explore and navigate audio-visual scenes by freely
choosing viewpoint and viewing direction, is an important key feature of new and emerging …

New kinds of media are emerging that extend the functionality of available technology. The
growth of immersive recording technologies has led to video-based rendering systems for …

3-D scene representation is utilized during scene extraction, modeling, transmission and
display stages of a 3DTV framework. To this end, different representation technologies are …

The 3D video extension of High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC) exploits texture-depth
redundancies in 3D videos using intercomponent coding tools. It also inherits the same …

Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) is widely used to generate virtual view of a scene
from a known view with associated depth map in 3D video applications. However …

The depth maps intra-frame prediction of 3D High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC)
inherits all texture encoding techniques provided by HEVC and provides new coding tools …