Disney Research Studios

We present a practical and inexpensive method for creating physical objects that cast different color shadow images when illuminated by prescribed lighting configurations.

Synthetically generating images and video frames of complex 3D scenes using some photo-realistic rendering software is often prone to artifacts and requires expert knowledge to tune the parameters.

In this work, we devise an efficient video retargeting algorithm by following an algorithm-architecture co-design approach and we present the first FPGA implementation that is able to retarget full HD 1080p video at up to 60 frames per second.

This paper presents a real-time processing platform for high-definition stereo video.

Nonlinear image warping or image resampling is a necessary step in many current and upcoming video applications, such as video retargeting, stereoscopic 3-D mapping, and multiview synthesis.

We introduce a single unifying framework for a wide range of content-aware image warping tasks using a finite element method (FEM).

We investigate new methods for compositing live action stereo 3D, given two stereo camera systems and a corresponding depth map.

Current trends in video technology indicate a significant increase in spatial and temporal resolution of video data. Recently, a linear-runtime feature diffusion algorithm was presented which aims for fast and accurate processing of such high-resolution data.

In this paper, a method for efficient warp coding is presented. Coded warps are transmitted together with stereo or multi-view video to enable additional functionalities at the receiver-side through image-domain-warping, e.g. depth adaption for stereo displays or support of multi-view autostereoscopic Displays.

This paper provides details on a complete integration of Content adaptive Spatial Scalability (CASS) into the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC (SVC).