A Simulator for the Cafadis Real Time 3DTV Camera

Author

Nava, F. Perez ; Luke, J. Philip ; Marichal-Hernandez, Jose G. ; Rosa, F. ; Rodriguez-Ramos, J.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Estadistica, Electron. y Sist. Univ. de La Laguna, La Laguna

fYear

2008

fDate

28-30 May 2008

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

324

Abstract

This paper presents a computer simulator for the CAFADIS camera. CAFADIS is a patented camera (PCT/ES2007/000046) that measures wave-front phases and 3D distances under different scenarios (from microns to kilometres), using highly specialised electronic technology, namely Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Since 3DTV is one of the most important applications for future information systems it is essential to know the camera design that is capable to satisfy the demands of real time 3DTV. To study the optimal design of the CAFADIS camera for 3DTV and other applications, we have developed a computer simulator that places a virtual CAFADIS camera in a virtual world. Such simulator provides the accuracy of the camera 3D reconstruction for a specific CAFADIS camera configuration and is valuable tool for the improvement process of the device.

Keywords

real-time systems; television cameras; three-dimensional television; CAFADIS real time 3DTV camera; camera 3D reconstruction; virtual world; wave-front phase measurement; Application software; Cameras; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Information systems; Phase measurement; Phased arrays; Real time systems; 3D TV; FPGA; GPU; real time processing; rendering; scene depth; stereo reconstruction; wavefront map;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, 2008

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1760-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1755-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DTV.2008.4547873

Filename

4547873