The ability to provide more exciting, informative and entertaining end-user visual experience has created an enormous interest among the viewers towards 3D content. Whereas traditional 2D video is sufficient for describing details of captured scenes, 3D video can provide more realistic representation of the same scene with the additional value of depth. The success of today’s 3D video services requires that the end users meet a satisfactory level of perceptual quality. 3D cinema and 3DTV have grown in popularity in recent years. Filmmakers have a significant opportunity in front of them given the recent success of 3D films. In this talk we investigate whether this opportunity could be extended from cinema to home in a meaningful way.

“3D” perceived from viewing stereoscopic content depends on the viewing geometry. This implies that the stereoscopic-3D content should be captured for a specific viewing geometry in order to provide a satisfactory 3D experience. However, although it would be possible, it is clearly not viable, to produce and transmit multiple streams of the same content for different screen sizes. To solve the above problem, we analyze the performance of several disparity-based transformation techniques, which could be used for cinema-to-3DTV content conversion.