Creating a life-sized automultiscopic Morgan Spurlock for CNNs "Inside Man"

We present a system for capturing and rendering life-size 3D human subjects on an automultiscopic display. Automultiscopic 3D displays allow a large number of viewers to experience 3D content simultaneously without the hassle of special glasses or head gear. Such displays are ideal for human subjects as they allow for natural personal interactions with 3D cues such as eye-gaze and complex hand gestures. In this talk, we will focus on a case-study where our system was used to digitize television host Morgan Spurlock for his documentary show ”Inside Man” on CNN. Automultiscopic displays work by generating many simultaneous views with highangular density over a wide-field of view. The angular spacing between between views must be small enough that each eye perceives a distinct and different view. As the user moves around the display, the eye smoothly transitions from one view to the next. We generate multiple views using a dense horizontal array of video projectors. As video projectors continue to shrink in size, power consumption, and cost, it is now possible to closely stack hundreds of projectors so that their lenses are almost continuous. However this display presents a new challenge for content acquisition. It would require hundreds of cameras to directly measure every projector ray. We achieve similar quality with a new view interpolation algorithm suitable for dense automultiscopic displays.