Acquisition and display systems of FTV (free-viewpoint television)

Abstract

Free-viewpoint TeleVision (FTV) is a next generation television where users can move their viewpoints freely. In the previous paper, we reported an FTV system based on the Ray-Space representation. In this paper, we focus on acquisition and display system for the FTV. As an acquisition system, we investigated two configurations: (1) multiple cameras with interpolation, and (2) a single high-speed camera with optical scanning system. As a display system, we developed a display with head tracking, where the position of a user is detected by image processing.