This paper presents our ongoing research on view synthesis of free-viewpoint 3D multi-view video for 3DTV. With the emerging breakthrough of stereoscopic 3DTV, we have extended a reference free-viewpoint rendering algorithm to generate stereoscopic views. Two similar solutions for converting free-viewpoint 3D multi-view video into a stereoscopic vision have been developed. These solutions take into account the complexity of the algorithms by exploiting the redundancy in stereo images, since we aim at a real-time hardware implementation. Both solutions are based on applying a horizontal shift instead of double execution of the reference free-viewpoint rendering algorithm for stereo generation (FVP stereo generation), so that the rendering time can be reduced by as much as 30
Luat Do, Svitlana Zinger, Peter H. N. de With