Presence capture cameras - a new challenge to the image quality

Veli-Tapani Peltoketo

doi:10.1117/12.2227055

29 April 2016 Presence capture cameras - a new challenge to the image quality

Veli-Tapani Peltoketo

Proceedings Volume 9896, Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications IV; 98960Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227055
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Commercial presence capture cameras are coming to the markets and a new era of visual entertainment starts to get its shape. Since the true presence capturing is still a very new technology, the real technical solutions are just passed a prototyping phase and they vary a lot. Presence capture cameras have still the same quality issues to tackle as previous phases of digital imaging but also numerous new ones. This work concentrates to the quality challenges of presence capture cameras. A camera system which can record 3D audio-visual reality as it is has to have several camera modules, several microphones and especially technology which can synchronize output of several sources to a seamless and smooth virtual reality experience. Several traditional quality features are still valid in presence capture cameras. Features like color fidelity, noise removal, resolution and dynamic range create the base of virtual reality stream quality. However, co-operation of several cameras brings a new dimension for these quality factors. Also new quality features can be validated. For example, how the camera streams should be stitched together with 3D experience without noticeable errors and how to validate the stitching? The work describes quality factors which are still valid in the presence capture cameras and defines the importance of those. Moreover, new challenges of presence capture cameras are investigated in image and video quality point of view. The work contains considerations how well current measurement methods can be used in presence capture cameras.

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Veli-Tapani Peltoketo "Presence capture cameras - a new challenge to the image quality", Proc. SPIE 9896, Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications IV, 98960Q (29 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227055

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