Image analysis and synthesis for multiple stereo camera teleconferencing systems

We identify why current teleconferencing systems tend to be rigid system specific solutions. We present a flexible teleconferencing system. This is both scalable: depending on the display size and number of conferees, axe-parallel narrow-baseline stereo camera pairs for image capture and disparity estimation can be added or removed, and modular: the multi-view synthesis process being dynamic enough to produce virtual views from an N camera set-up.