讲座时间：2016年10月19日14:30

讲座地点：科研楼科C218

讲座题目： FTV (Free-viewpoint Television)

主讲人： Professor Masayuki Tanimoto 

报告简介：Television has achieved great progress in resolution. However, it allows users to see only a single view of a 3D scene and the viewpoint can’t be changed by users. FTV (Free-viewpoint Television) breaks down this limitation of television and enables users to view a 3D scene by freely changing their viewpoint as if they were there. FTV is the ultimate 3DTV with an infinite number of views and ranks as the top of visual media. FTV sends a limited number of views and synthesizes the other views. FTV was realized by developing novel capture, processing and display technologies. MPEG has been creating various FTV standards since 2001. The first phase of FTV was MVC (Multi-view Video Coding) and the second phase was 3DV (3D Video). MVC is a standard to encode multi-camera views. 3DV encodes a few sets of view plus depth data and intermediate views are synthesized from the decoded data for multiview displays. The current third phase of FTV targets revolutionized viewing of 3D scenes by super multiview, free navigation and 360-degree 3D. In this talk, the technologies of FTV and the progress of FTV standardization in MPEG are presented.

主讲人简介：Professor Masayuki Tanimoto received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.E. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1970, 1972, and 1976, respectively. From 1974 to 1975, he stayed at Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He joined Nagoya University in 1976. He was a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University from 1991 to 2012. Currently, he is an Emeritus Professor at Nagoya University and a Senior Research Fellow at Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute. 

His research interests include image coding, image processing and 3D imaging and ITS. He developed TAT (Time-Axis Transform) system for HDTV compression. TAT system became one of the two candidates for HDTV satellite broadcast system in Japan. He also developed FTV (Free-viewpoint Television). He has been promoting the standardization of FTV in MPEG. 

He was the president of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE). He is Honorary Member of the ITE, Fellow of the IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers) and IEEE Life Fellow. He received the ITE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award, the IEICE Achievement Award, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.