The Ultimate Immersive Experience: Panoramic 3D Video Acquisition

Abstract. The paper presents a new approach on an omni-directional omnistereo multi-camera system that allows the recording of panoramic 3D video with high resolution and quality and display in stereo 3D on a cylindrical screen. It has been developed in the framework of the TiME Lab at Fraunhofer HHI, an experimental platform for immersive media and related content creation. The new system uses a mirror rig to enable a multi-camera constellation that is close to the concept of concentric mosaics. A proof of concept has shown that the systematical approximation error related to concentric mosaics is negligible in practice and parallax-free stitching of stereoscopic video panoramas can be achieved with high 3D quality and for arbitrary scenes with depth ranges from 2 meters to infinity.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: MMM
• Authors: Christian Weissig, Oliver Schreer, Peter Eisert, Peter Kauff
• Keywords: Approximation Error, Immersive Media, MMM 2012, Multimedia, Video Panoramas