3DTV: Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video

Call for Papers

Capturing three-dimensional visual information of a real-life scene and creating an exact (except the scale) optical duplicate of it at a remote site instantaneously, or at a later time, are ultimate goals in visual communications. All core and peripheral components related to this goal are collectively referred to as “three-dimensional television (3DTV).” Main functional components of 3DTV are “capture and representation of 3D scene information,” “complete definition of digital 3DTV signal,” “storage and transmission of this signal,” and finally the “display of the reproduced 3D scene.” For a successful consumer accepted operation of 3DTV, all these functional components must be carefully designed in an integrated fashion by considering the harmonious interaction among them. This kind of large-scale integration naturally involves a large group of researchers with diverse backgrounds, and therefore has a highly multidisciplinary nature.

The objective of the proposed special issue is to present, in a well-coordinated fashion, the works and efforts of researchers with rather diverse experience and activity in distinct, yet related and complementary areas for achieving full-scale three-dimensional television. The latest research contributors in the field and authors of selected papers of the 3DTV CON 2007 (www.3dtv-con.org) will be invited to this special issue.

Papers on the following and related list of topics are solicited:

  • 3D Capture and processing
    • 3D time-varying scene capture technology
    • Multicamera recording
    • 3D photography algorithms
    • Synchronization and calibration of camera arrays
    • 3D view registration
    • Multiview geometry and calibration
    • Holographic camera techniques
    • 3D motion analysis and tracking
    • Surface modeling for 3D scenes
    • Multiview image and 3D data processing
  • 3D transmission
    • Systems, architecture, and transmission aspects of 3D
    • 3D streaming
    • Error-related issues and handling of 3D video
    • Hologram compression
    • Multiview video coding
    • 3D mesh compression
    • Multiple-description coding for 3D
    • Signal processing for diffraction and holographic 3DTV
  • 3D visualization
    • 3D mesh representation
    • Texture and point representation
    • Object-based representation and segmentation
    • Volume representation
    • 3D motion animation
    • Dense stereo and 3D reconstruction
    • Stereoscopic display techniques
    • Holographic display technology
    • Reduced parallax systems and integral imaging
    • Underlying optics and VLSI technology
    • Projection and display technology for 3D videos
    • Human factors
  • 3D applications
    • 3D imaging in virtual heritage and virtual archaeology
    • 3D teleimmersion and remote collaboration
    • Augmented reality and virtual environments
    • 3D television, cinema, games, and entertainment
    • Medical and biomedical applications
    • 3D content-based retrieval and recognition
    • 3D watermarking

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueOctober 1, 2007
First Round of ReviewsJanuary 1, 2008
Publication DateApril 1, 2008

Guest Editors:

  • Levent Onural, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
  • Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, 10587 Berlin, Germany
  • A. Enis Cetin, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
  • John Watson, Department of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3UE, UK
  • Georgios A. Triantafyllidis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Center for Research and Technology– Hellas/CERTH, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Thomas Sikora, Institut für Telekommunikationssysteme, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany