Server and client simulator for web‐based 3d image communication

Abstract In this paper, a server and client simulator for the web‐based multi‐view 3D image communication system is implemented by using the IEEE 1394 digital cameras, Intel Xeon server computer and Microsoft's DirectShow programming library. In the proposed system, two‐view image is initially captured by using the IEEE 1394 stereo camera and then, this data is compressed through extraction of its disparity information in the Intel Xeon server computer and transmitted to the client system, in which multi‐view images are generated through the intermediate views reconstruction method and finally display on the 3D display monitor. Through some experiments it is found that the proposed system can display 8‐view image having a grey level of 8 bits with a frame rate of 15 fps.