Multi-View Video: Get Ready for Next-Generation Television

Many believe that multi-view video is poised to change how people watch television and that it could become a driving force in interactive multimedia entertainment, for both desktop and mobile environments. An MVV system acquires several video sequences of the same scene simultaneously from more than one angle and transports these streams remotely. Scenes can be displayed interactively, letting the user rotate the view from multiple angles as if it were 3D and enjoy the feeling of being in the scene. Owing to the massive amount of data involved and extensive processing requirements, real-time MVV processing presents research issues that lie at the frontier of video coding, image processing, computer vision, and display technologies. Building a complete end-to-end MVV system also hinges on several additional technologies, such as real-time acquisition, transmission, and display of dynamic scenes that users can view interactively on conventional screens. Several research groups around the world are actively researching MVV