Human-Machine Cooperative Viewing System for Wide-angle Multi-view Videos

Wide-angle multi-view video, which provides viewers with a realistic experience, has received increasing attention in recent years. Users want to watch such videos interactively, switching viewpoints freely, but without the burdens of consecutive viewpoint selection or complex operation. Viewing systems should therefore satisfy these conflicting needs simultaneously. In this paper, we take the novel approach of confronting multi-view videos as a cooperative work. We also introduce a human-machine cooperative viewing system for wide-angle multi-view videos exploiting target-centered viewing. Our system consists of a manual viewpoint selection function and an automatic viewpoint selection function based on our concept.