Immersive Video Technologies

Get a broad overview of the different modalities of immersive video technologies--from omnidirectional video to light fields and volumetric video--from a multimedia processing perspective.

From capture to representation, coding, and display, video technologies have been evolving significantly and in many different directions over the last few decades, with the ultimate goal of providing a truly immersive experience to users. After setting up a common background for these technologies, based on the plenoptic function theoretical concept, Immersive Video Technologies offers a comprehensive overview of the leading technologies enabling visual immersion, including omnidirectional (360 degrees) video, light fields, and volumetric video. Following the critical components of the typical content production and delivery pipeline, the book presents acquisition, representation, coding, rendering, and quality assessment approaches for each immersive video modality. The text also reviews current standardization efforts and explores new research directions.

With this book the reader will a) gain a broad understanding of immersive video technologies that use three different modalities: omnidirectional video, light fields, and volumetric video; b) learn about the most recent scientific results in the field, including the recent learning-based methodologies; and c) understand the challenges and perspectives for immersive video technologies.

從多媒體處理的角度，獲得對沉浸式視頻技術的不同模式的廣泛概述，從全方位視頻到光場和體積視頻。

從捕捉到呈現、編碼和顯示，視頻技術在過去幾十年中在許多不同的方向上有了顯著的發展，其最終目標是為用戶提供真正沉浸式的體驗。在基於光場函數理論概念的共同背景下，「沉浸式視頻技術」提供了對主要技術的全面概述，包括全方位（360度）視頻、光場和體積視頻。在介紹典型內容生產和傳遞流程的關鍵組件後，本書介紹了每種沉浸式視頻模式的捕獲、表示、編碼、渲染和質量評估方法。本書還回顧了當前的標準化工作並探索了新的研究方向。

通過本書，讀者將：a）獲得對使用三種不同模式的沉浸式視頻技術的廣泛理解：全方位視頻、光場和體積視頻；b）了解該領域最新的科學成果，包括最近的基於學習的方法；c）了解沉浸式視頻技術的挑戰和前景。