STAN – Perfect Stereo-3D in Real Time
The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and KUK Film Productions present STAN – the world’s first system for stereoscopic analysis and real time image processing. STAN’s mix of hardware and software captures and analyses stereo pictures enabling them to be processed in real time. STAN is used for the production of stereo content at 3D shooting of live events. But STAN can also generate and store metadata making it ideal for use in 3D-postproduction.
Obtaining good quality film material or live pictures in 3D is a major headache in many areas as a large number of parameters – like the stereo baseline, color, geometry or the camera distance – change from shot to shot according to the set and the scene properties.
STAN is the Stereoscopic Analyzer System produced by the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute that assists camera people and production staff in setting the critical stereo parameters. Its ultra-rapid feedback loop means that values calibrated for the shot can be fed directly to the cameras and processing units so that errors or false settings can be identified and corrected in real time.
STAN is the only system to have an automated on-site control of the stereo baseline through the motor-controlled positioning of the cameras steered by stereo parameters calculated in real time. It’s this imagebased calculation of the stereo baseline and the preview of data for the image depth that really marks STAN out from other systems.
Source: OpenPR
