FTV: Free-viewpoint Television

FTV (Free-viewpoint Television) enables us to view a 3D scene by freely changing our viewpoint. FTV is the ultimate 3DTV with infinite number of views and ranked as the top of visual media. We realized FTV by developing various types of ray capture, processing and display technologies. We have also realized all-around ray-reproducing 3DTV. The international standardization of FTV has been conducted in MPEG. The first phase of FTV was MVC (Multi-view Video Coding) and the second phase is 3DV (3D Video).