Li Zuo, Dept. of Computer Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Jian Lou, Media Communication Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Hua Cai, Media Communication Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Jiang Li, Media Communication Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
As a recently emerging service, multi-view video provides a new viewing experience with high degree of freedom. However, due to the huge data amounts transferred, multi-view video's delivery remains a daunting challenge. In this paper, we propose a multi-view video-streaming system based on IP multicast. It can support a large number of users while still keeping a high degree of interactivity and low bandwidth consumption. Based on a careful user study, we have developed two schemes: one is for automatic delivery and the other for on-demand delivery. In automatic delivery, a server periodically multicasts special effect snapshots at a certain time interval. In on-demand delivery, the server delivers the snapshots based on distribution of users' requests. We conducted extensive experiments and user-experience studies to evaluate the proposed system's performance, and found that the system could provide satisfying multi-view video service for users on a large scale.
Citation:
Li Zuo, Jian Lou, Hua Cai, Jiang Li, "Multicast of Real-Time Multi-View Video," icme, pp.1225-1228, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006