filename : Kus11.pdf entry : inproceedings conference : VMV 2011, Berlin, Germany, 4-6 October, 2011 pages : 17-24 year : 2011 month : October title : FreeCam: A Hybrid Camera System for Interactive Free-Viewpoint Video subtitle : author : Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Popa, Christopher Zach, Craig Gotsman, Markus Gross booktitle : Proceedings of VMV 2011 ISSN/ISBN : 978-3-905673-85-2 editor : Peter Eisert and Joachim Hornegger and Konrad Polthier publisher : Eurographics Association publ.place : volume : issue : language : english keywords : abstract : We describe FreeCam - a system capable of generating live free-viewpoint video by simulating the output of a virtual camera moving through a dynamic scene. The FreeCam sensing hardware consists of a small number of static color video cameras and state-of-the-art Kinect depth sensors, and the FreeCam software uses a number of advanced GPU processing and rendering techniques to seamlessly merge the input streams, providing a pleasant user experience. A system such as FreeCam is critical for applications such as telepresence, 3D video-conferencing and interactive 3D TV. FreeCam may also be used to produce multi-view video, which is critical to drive new-generation autostereoscopic lenticular 3D displays.