Image and Geometry Processing for 3-D Cinematography: An Introduction -- 3-D CINEMATOGRAPHY AND APPLICATIONS -- Stereoscopic Cinema -- Free-Viewpoint Television -- Free-Viewpoint Video for TV Sport Production -- Challenges for Multi-View Video Capture -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GEOMETRY -- Performance Capture from Multi-View Video -- Combining Multi-view Stereo and Bundle Adjustment for Accurate Camera Calibration -- Cell-Based 3D Video Capture Method with Active Cameras -- Dense 3D Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IMAGE PROCESSING -- Wavelet-Based Inverse Light and Reflectance from Images of a Known Object -- 3-D Lighting Environment Estimation with Shading and Shadows -- 3-D Cinematography with Approximate or No Geometry -- View Dependent Texturing Using a Linear Basis.

The book presents an overview of 3-D cinematography, the science and technology of generating 3-D models of dynamic scenes from multiple cameras at video frame rates. The book covers recent developments in computer vision and computer graphics that have made 3-D cinematography possible, and reviews the challenges and open issues that need to be addressed in future work. Important applications areas are presented, including production of stereoscopic movies, full 3-D animation from multiple videos, special effects for more traditional movies, and broadcasting of multiple-viewpoint television. The book brings together researchers and practitioners from computer graphics, computer vision, broadcasting and motion pictures, to offer a broad perspective on all current areas of research related to the production of high quality 3-D models of live-action scenes.