DSP Seminar
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00-5:00 p.m.
2269 Beckman Institute

Introduction to 3D Broadcasting Technology

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 or peripheral components related to this goal are collectively referred 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 or transmission of this signal,” and finally the “display of the reproduced scene.” 

Basically, 3DTV can be realized by using the realism & depth perception that occurs from the disparity between stereo images captured by human eyes. In this talk, the basic principles of 3DTV are given with the introduction of the overall 3D broadcasting system including main functional components described above. Also the world wide research trends and future research directions in 3D broadcasting are provided.

Prof. Jisang Yoo was born in Seoul, Korea.  He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1985 and 1987, all in electronics engineering, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in electrical engineering in 1993, respectively. From September 1993 to August 1994, he worked as a senior research engineer in industrial electronics R&D center at Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd, Ichon, Korea, in the area of image compression and HDTV. From 1994 to 1997, he was an assistant professor with the department of electronics engineering, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. He is currently a professor with the department of electronics engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests are in signal and image processing, especially in 3DTV area.