filename     : Wue05.pdf
entry        : appeared
conference   : Vision, Modeling, Visualization VMV'05, Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005
pages        : 9
year         : 2005
month        : November
title        : Image-space Free-viewpoint Video
subtitle     :
author       : Stephan Würmlin, Edouard Lamboray, Michael Waschbüsch, Peter Kaufmann, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
booktitle    : Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, Visualization '05
ISSN/ISBN    : 3-89838-068-8
editor       : G. Greiner, J. Hornegger, H. Niemann, M. Stamminger
publisher    : Aka
publ.place   : Berlin
volume       : 
issue        :
pages        : 453-460
language     : English
keywords     : 3D Video, Free-viewpoint Video, Multimedia Coding, Video-based Rendering, Standardization
abstract     : Image-space free-viewpoint video (FVV) is a framework for representation and
coding of sparse multi-view video and subsequent re-rendering from arbitrary
viewpoints. It is based on the fundamental concept of storing all information
describing a scene's visual appearance in multi-channel video images. Each
pixel's channels define different attributes of discrete point samples of
observed surfaces. In this paper, we show how image-space FVV can be
implemented with standard video coding tools and ready-available video coding
methods can thus be reused. Besides, this representation has been adopted as
extension of the MPEG-4 AFX standard. In addition to the representation, we
also introduce a novel video coding technique that allows random access and
progressive transmission. We evaluate this new codec in the context of FVV and
compare it to state-of-the-art image and video codecs like MPEG-4 and
JPEG-2000. We present results based on real-world data proving the suitability
of the chosen approach.