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Celebrate Research Week Postdoctoral Showcase

 

I will be the first speaker at the University of British Columbia's Celebrate Research Week Postdoctoral Showcase.

I will be talking about 3D video. This talk is free and it is intended for a general audience.

More info follows:

• Talk: Guidelines for Capturing High-Quality 3D Videos
• Date: March 8th, 2011
• Time: 10 AM
• Location: St. John’s College Social Lounge – 2111 Lower Mall (see map)

Hope to see you there!

We have a new website!

The Digital Multimedia Lab has a new website!

Di Xu was in charge of setting it up and she did a great job. Just take a look.

Editing 3D video

If you want to learn the basics of shooting 3D video you can watch the first 15 minutes of this video from Adobe.

I was happy to find out that professionals are using the same equipment that we have in our lab.

3D tests

Having fun with stereoscopic (3D) video. This anaglyph image is taken from two synchronized video frames (left view + right view). The distance between the two cameras is 77 mm. I am 3 meters away from the cameras and the distance between the cameras and the background is 5 meters. The original video frames have been modified so that nothing pops out of the screen (i.e., everything seems to be inside your monitor). This provides 3D image with higher quality according to the results from subjective tests that we performed. Click the image to enlarge it.

Girl swinging 3D

I took this 3D video with the Fuji 3D camera. You can watch it with anaglyph glasses (but it only works on the YouTube page).

Floating in the Digital Experience

New York Time's film movie critic Manohla Dargis talks about the origins of cinema, digital technology and James Cameron's Avatar.

I haven't seen Avatar yet but, based on some comments from some of you guys, it's a cool movie, right?