Dimensionalization Studies

Dimensionalization Studies began as an informal collaboration between computer vision researchers and those of us building the stereoscopic camera rig for the See Banff Kinetoscope project, at Interval Research in 1993. The computer vision researchers helped with the specifications for the camera, which resulted in usable footage for their work as well as for ours. The studies here are based on deriving depth information from stereoscopic pairs of images, then turning the 2D pixels into 3D "points in space." These are like 3D computer models in that arbitrary viewpoints can be displayed (often revealing "occlusions," or areas of missing data). They are unlike 3D computer models in that they are non-semantic: the computer has no knowledge of scene's contents.

Michael Naimark