Multi-view DVC system based on iterative inter-view prediction

A novel multi-view camera system based on Distributed Video Coding (DVC) scheme is described in this paper. Unlike other systems that use camera arrays, the proposed system consists of multiple uncalibrated and vastly different still-image cameras. The relative positions and viewing angles of these uncalibrated cameras are not known a-priori. Images captured by these cameras are first registered using sparse, low level image features. Inter-view correlation is then exploited iteratively using a DVC scheme. Our results demonstrated that it is feasible to generate high-quality multi-view images from different and uncalibrated cameras based on DVC methods.