spectator sports competitions will be able to become a director of shots like the “Matrix” – touring the boxing ring virtual camera and watch the event from different angles. This possibility gives free viewpoint television, over which researchers work from.
In the now classic scene from the movie “The Matrix” hero jumps and freezes in flight – the camera at this time orbits form, and the viewer can see the scene from different angles – as if watching a sculpture. Researchers are working to similar results could be obtained during sports broadcasts. Perhaps in the future, so the viewer will be able to stop fighting wrestlers at the time of roll or boxing match at the moment of impact and watch the moment stuck in time, as would see it instantly gliding around the scene camera.
Such capabilities are becoming increasingly closer thanks to research on free television Punt view (FTV – Free Viepoint Television). Such a new television could also be attractive for broadcast theatrical shows (such as. Dance) and instructional videos (eg. Demonstration of surgery).
- Television free point of view will give the viewer the opportunity to interact. Although the viewer does not get through her influence on the course watching the event, it will be able to change the director and decide on moving the camera around the scene – sums prof. Marek Domanski of the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Poznan University of Technology, who conducts research on FTV.
For now, researchers at the University of Technology are working on making sure that each member of the audience in real time during transmission may itself play in the TV operator and by appropriate computer commands to move the virtual camera. Everyone will be so alone decide whether to watch the event from the left or the right, or you may want to tour the virtual camera scene and at what pace to do it. The viewer will be able to also do a close-up.
In the movie “The Matrix” effect stopped the fly actresses were obtained, making at the same time images of very numerous cameras placed around the stage. Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Technology are of the opinion that the effect of liquid bypass the camera around the scene (rotate 120 degrees) can be obtained only by recording event of a dozen cameras arranged in a circle.
Developed by scientists will be able to software based on the image obtained from the camera to calculate what you see will be from anywhere between the devices. This allows the viewer will be able to obtain an image of a place where there is no camera, and the transitions between the points where the camera stand will be smooth. The software will calculate the image that should receive the user and sends it to the device viewer – to receive the transmission, it will need specialized equipment or fast – just install on your computer or smartphone appropriate application.
In studies Poznan researchers tested yet a solution in which the viewing angle can change by up to 120 degrees (third turn). If we otaczałyby camera scene on each side, would have to be seen in the background bursting with action.
For now, scientists encounter in technology FTV many problems – including related to various image distortions resulting from failure to determine the location of individual objects. – But I think it’s a matter of 2-3 years, that our technology has been refined and could hit the market – says prof. Domanski.
Research on television lead free access not only Poles, but also researchers from Japan and South Korea. – The quality of our software, but to pretend to be the best – the caller believes the PAP.
Louis Tomala
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