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RI SEMINAR -- Mel Siegel

• WHEN: Friday, February 3, 1995; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Refreshments will be served starting at 3:15 pm.
• WHERE: ADAMSON WING Auditorium in Baker Hall
• SPEAKER: Mel Siegel

    Senior Research Scientist
    Robotics Institute
         

• TITLE: 3D-TV (and Workstations)

ABSTRACT

High definition, high speed displays integrated with fast digitization, image storage, and image processing now permit us to implement several concepts for 3D-sterescopic television (and computer workstations), many of which have been around, unimplementable, for a long time. In this talk I will:

• review the fundamentals of binocular 3D-stereoscopic vision
• review historical approaches to 3D-image and 3D-stream pair display
• narrow the discussion to approaches that use a single more-or-less flat screen (like a TV or workstation monitor)
• describe my group's research in several areas:
  • the physics of re-creating naked-eye and augmented-eye reality
  • the state-of-the-art in video: delivering the full spatial and temporal resolution of an NTSC stream per eye
  • three increasingly sophisticated approaches to presenting video and/or computer graphics on a workstation
    • a well known special purpose hardware based full-screen, half spatial resolution approach
    • our adaptation of this approach to an X-Windows environment, still full screen
    • our new "Stereo-in-Windows" approach, which allows arbitrary mixes of stereo and flat XWindows on one screen at one time at full resolution
  • progress in the (I will show you: related) areas of image compression, intermediate view interpolation, and user-adjustable stereopsis
• demonstrate as much of this as it is practical to set up in the Adamson Wing auditorium [TBD].