filename     : Kus11.pdf
entry        : inproceedings
conference   : VMV 2011, Berlin, Germany, 4-6 October, 2011
pages        : 17-24
year         : 2011
month        : October
title        : FreeCam: A Hybrid Camera System for Interactive Free-Viewpoint Video
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author       : Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Popa, Christopher Zach, Craig Gotsman, Markus Gross
booktitle    : Proceedings of VMV 2011
ISSN/ISBN    : 978-3-905673-85-2
editor       : Peter Eisert and Joachim Hornegger and Konrad Polthier
publisher    : Eurographics Association
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language     : english
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abstract     : We describe FreeCam - a system capable of generating live free-viewpoint video by simulating the output of a
virtual camera moving through a dynamic scene. The FreeCam sensing hardware consists of a small number of
static color video cameras and state-of-the-art Kinect depth sensors, and the FreeCam software uses a number of
advanced GPU processing and rendering techniques to seamlessly merge the input streams, providing a pleasant
user experience. A system such as FreeCam is critical for applications such as telepresence, 3D video-conferencing
and interactive 3D TV. FreeCam may also be used to produce multi-view video, which is critical to drive new-generation
autostereoscopic lenticular 3D displays.