Pseudo 3D Video Conferencing

Posted on January 30th, 2009 in All Videos, Quickies, Technology

4 minutes

Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson have teamed up to develop a technique enabling Pseudo-3D video conferencing via generic web cameras.  The technique works in two parts to complete the effect.  The first is to seperate the person from the background. The second is to track the movement of the viewer via face tracking. By scaling down and moving the background of the remote viewer based on the viewer’s movements, an immursive effect is created.  Chris Hudson is a student, and Scott Hudson a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.