A realtime hardware system for stereoscopic videoconferencing with viewpoint adaptation

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 147-171

  Ohm, Jens Rainer ^a   Grüneberg, Karsten ^a   Hendriks, Emile ^b   Izquierdo, M Ebroul ^a   Kalivas, Dimitris ^b   Karl, Michael ^a   Papadimatos, Dionysis ^b   Redert, André ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; CAMERAS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STEREO VISION;

STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIEWPOINT ADAPTATION;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 0032205919     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0923-5965(98)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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