Free-viewpoint television (FTV) is a visionary application that provides immersive experience to the audience with the freedom of changing viewpoint during the video playout. However, live broadcasting and user interaction do not coexist in existing FTV systems. In this paper, we propose F.Live, a framework of FTV content dissemination that supports user-initiated viewpoint changing for live broadcasting. Simulation result of a large-scale experiment, based on camera array settings of existing Nagoya systems and EyeVision System, shows that F.Live is capable of supporting 100,000 concurrent audiences with free-viewpoint low user interaction latency and feasible bandwidth requirements.

3D video is a new form of video featuring omni-view and immersive properties that are beneficial to many applications like telediagnosis, remote physiotherapy and e-learning. This paper presents OmniViewer, a multi-modal 3D streaming system based DASH, enhancing the versatility of the existing DASH standard and delivery infrastructure. Besides 3D video, OmniViewer supports multi-modal media in the DASH content for real-time media-synchronized interactive services. OmniViewer provides a complete multi-modal 3D video streaming solution from recording to rendering through DASH, which fills the gap between monoscopic 3D systems and 3D streaming systems.

This paper presents OmniViewer, a multi-modal 3D video streaming system based on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. OmniViewer allows users to view arbitrary side of a performer by choosing the view angle from 0° to 360°. Besides, according to the current available bandwidth, it can also adaptively change the bitrate of rendered 3D video for both smooth and high-quality view rendering. Finally, OmniViewer extends traditional DASH implementation to support multi-modal data streaming besides video and audio.

3DTI Amphitheater is a live broadcasting system for dissemination of 3DTI (3D Tele-immersive) content. The virtual environment constructed by the system mimics an amphitheater in the real world, where performers interact with each other in the central circular stage, and the audience is placed in virtual seats that surround the stage. Users of the Amphitheater can be geographically dispersed and the streams created by the performer sites are disseminated in a P2P network among the participants. To deal with the high bandwidth demand and strict latency bound of the service, we identify the hierarchical priority of streams in construction of the content dissemination forest. Result shows that the Amphitheater outperforms prior 3DTI systems by boosting the application QoS by a factor of 2.8 while sustaining the same hundred-scale audience group.

This paper proposes FreeViewer, a 3D Tele-Immersion view-control system that allows viewers to see arbitrary side of the performer by intelligently choosing the streams of a subset of cameras and changing the point of view in a 3D virtual space. The view changing is actuated by the change of the sensor data from wearable devices (eg. Google Glass, smartphone) on the performer able to monitor the current orientation.