Emerging Imaging Technologies: Trends and Challenges

This chapter addresses image and video technologies related to 3D immersive multimedia delivery systems with special emphasis on the most promising digital formats. Besides recent research results and technical challenges associated with multiview image and image, video and lightfield acquisition and processing, the chapter also presents relevant results from international standardization activities in the scope of ISO, IEC, and ITU. Standard solutions to encode multiview image and video content and ongoing research are addressed, along with novel solutions to enable further developments in the emerging technologies dealing with capture and coding for lightfield content and free viewpoint television.