Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display

Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display describes recent developments, as well as the prospects and challenges facing 3D imaging, visualization, and display systems and devices. With the rapid advances in electronics, hardware, and software, 3D imaging techniques can now be implemented with commercially available components and can be used for many applications. This volume discusses the state-of-the-art in 3D display and visualization technologies, including binocular, multi-view, holographic, and image reproduction and capture techniques. It also covers 3D optical systems, 3D display instruments, 3D imaging applications, and details several attractive methods for producing 3D moving pictures. This book integrates the background material with new advances and applications in the field, and the available online supplement will include full color videos of 3D display systems.

Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display is suitable for electrical engineers, computer scientists, optical engineers, physicists, graduate students, government and industry technology managers, as well as anyone with an interest in this exciting future technology.

Part 1: Stereoscopic, multi-view.- Naturalness and presence on stereoscopic image.- Repeated Vergence Adaptation Causes the Decline of Visual Functions in Watching Stereoscopic Television.- Large LED screen television system without eyewear.- Depth resolution and displayable depth of a scene in 3D images.- Part 2: Multi-view, integral imaging.- Flat-panel autostereoscopic view-sequential 3D display backlight.- High-density Directional Display for Generating Natural Three-dimensional Images.- Integral imaging with high depth of field.- Real-time integral imaging using high resolution video system with 8 million pixels.- Part 3: Holographic imaging.- Generation of holograms using integral photography.- Recording and reconstruction of practical 3D color images by phase-shifting electro-holography.- High speed phase shifting digital holography for real-time three-dimensional display.- Single exposure shift-invariant object recognition digital holography.- In-line digital holography using a quarter wave plate and averaging method.- Part 4: Image processing.- Interactive virtual view video: the bridge between immersive TV and 3DTV.- Towards an optimized 3D broadcast chain.- Free-viewpoint TV system based on ray-space representation.