Today YouTube is expanding their 3D service to now include any short
videos that are uploaded. So rather than having to click a button to
convert your short movie into 3D. YouTube will now automatically convert
1080p short movies directly to 3D as they are uploaded.
The new service will make it easier for
YouTube users to now view movies in 3D by
simply clicking on the “Gear”
icon within the YouTube player to view it in glorious 3D. But don’t
forget you will need to be wearing a pair of 3D glasses. YouTube
explains:
To give you more dimension on 3D, here’s some background how the conversion technology works at YouTube. Since last September we’ve been constantly improving the underlying technology, which now uses several techniques:
We use a combination of video
characteristics such as color, spatial layout and motion to estimate a
depth map for each frame of a monoscopic video sequence. We use
machine learning from the growing number of true 3D videos on YouTube
to learn video depth characteristics and apply them in depth
estimation. The generated depth map and the original monoscopic frame create a stereo 3D left-right pair, that a stereo display system needs to display a video as 3D
For more information on the new 3D technology being implemented by Google, jump over to the YouTube blogpost for more information.
