Abstract
3D multimedia attracts people by the vivid and the fascinating depth perception. The movie industry is in the Renaissance phase with the aid of 3D multimedia since the 3D experience will be amplified in the movie theater. Although we are living in a 3D world, the development of 3D multimedia just started in recent years. Therefore, we want to propose a 3D multimedia signal processing framework to deal with the various challenges coming from this newly appeared media. We have addressed the research issues regarding content creation, data compression and content protection with which the traditional 2D multimedia based approaches will not performed efficiently and properly. Furthermore, we are studying the core issue of 3D multimedia which is the quality assessment of stereopsis. We expect the research of 3D multimedia signal processing can further popularize the 3D contents and brings new thoughts of multimedia research to enable new paradigms of 3D multimedia applications. © 2012 ACM.