Toward 3D-Video: Challenge and solution
Date: Thursday, October 18
Presented by
Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University
Abstract
Television, first developed in the early 20th century, evolves from the monochrome television, the color television to the digital television today. The driving force comes from the eagerness of Ħ°recordingĦħ the real world and approaching the visual limitation. Today, the 21st century, people still want to make a breakthrough on display technology and bring another vision revolution. The requirement of display technology also changes from vividness to reality.
Although the previous 2D display devices are all good at presenting two dimensional pictures, 3D video can bring us more real and natural experiences. As the LCD monitor evolves, several LCD monitor manufacturers already developed new LCD monitors with three dimensional vision capabilities. Under this trend, providing and compression of 3D video content become important. The 3D video provides visions from different viewpoints for both eyes of the viewers. In different visual applications, it brings impact on different aspects. On the Web 2.0 systems, 3D captured images give users free viewpoint impression. On a 3D-TV system, the three dimensional feelings are stunning especially when watching the music show, movies, sports, and sightseeing video.
The importance of the 3D video will rise in the near future, so the capturing and display of 3D video become hot research topics in these years. This talk starts from the 3D display evolution. And then the application revolution brought by the 3D video is addressed. Processors with different purposes are now combined to achieve higher flexibility and computational capability. Challenges will soon be met due to the huge data of 3D video either in the hardware area or the EDA area. The SoC integration of these hardware architectures delivers the message that the trillion transistor era is coming, too. As time goes by, when 3D vision evolves as the necessity of future living style, a storm of this new media will carry everything with one.
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