This website reopened Nov. 2006 for HD video
gallery. v is for VIDEO this time. It is
just for fun of one of my after-retirement hobbies. Please enjoy a stabilized
HD and Stereoscopic video clips. The contents
are generally heavy (hundreds of MB and max. 5 Mbps) and require broad
band connection and relatively high performance PC's to appreciate them
via smooth streaming.
The original
site opened in Oct. 1995 to exhibits art works (ceramics, etching
prints, computer graphics...) of Japanese artists, including me by using
a variety of web multimedia technologies such as VRML(Interactive 3D
CG for Web), Chromeffects, Shockwave, Flash, RealMedia, QuicktimeVR
and dynamic HTML. That was a small trial project of "Private Digital
Archive". It has not been updated since Jan. 1999 as my job was getting
busy. v was for VIRTUAL
originally.
Don't forget to roll your mouse over the Underglaze
Blue Dish (Left top, anaglyphic stereogram) before entering the
galleries to see what happens.
HD Video
Stereoscopic
3D Video
Stabilized
Google Earth
CG
Close-up
Macro video
Hyper-Stereoscopic
Video
Tilt-Shift
Timelapse
http://www.youtubemp4.com/video/mIuk-Naxg0E.mp4
■3D
Kobe Luminarie 2009 （2010/1/13 added）
Direct link to full HD version; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJ9ogRyj4A&fmt=22
（Original file is 1440anamorphic x1080 Over/Under HDV format
) Luminarie have been held every December as a requiem event
for the 1995 earthquake disaster victims. 2009 Luminarie was
the 15th anniversary event. I wish all of the 6434 disaster
victims may rest in peace here in beautifully illuminated Kobe.
Appropriate glasses required to view this video in 3D.
■3D
Wide Test Video of Twin GoPro HD with Stabilizer （No.3) （2010/1/17 added）
Direct link to YouTube 3D HD video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBhbbvJUk4&fmt=22
Test of stereoscopic wide angle HD video with twin GoPro HD video
camera. Angle of View is 170 deg. for the 720P-60fps mode used
for this particular video. Stereo base was about 60-150mm. No
lens distortion correction. Home-made stabilizer was used for
stabilization of walk through video. http://v-galleries.com/images/Twin_GoPro_Rig/index.htm
■3D
Wide Test Video of Twin GoPro HD （No.2) （2009/12/13 added）
Direct link to HD YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBJS7eV0ag&fmt=22
Test of stereoscopic wide angle HD video with twin GoPro HD video
camera. Angle of View is 170 deg. for the 720P-60fps mode used
for this p... Direct link to HD YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBJS7...
Test of stereoscopic wide angle HD video with twin GoPro HD video
camera. Angle of View is 170 deg. for the 720P-60fps mode used
for this particular video. Stereo base was about 150mm. No lens
distortion correction. The video quality of this outdoor sport
camera is not best at all, but useful for ultra wide angle HD
video which is untrodden area in stereoscopy so far. Photos of
twin Gopro 3D rigs are shown at; http://v-galleries.com/images/Twin_GoPro_Rig/index.htm
■3D
Wide Test Video of Twin GoPro HD （No.1) （2009/12/13 added）
Direct link to HD Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnj89tKsSw&fmt=22
Test of stereoscopic wide angle HD video with twin GoPro HD video
camera. Angle of View is 170 deg. for the 720P-60fps mode used
for this particular video. Stereo base was about 30mm. No lens
distortion correction. Reduction of stereo base for closed-up
stereoscopic shot in half mirror type beam splitter type equipment
is very difficult task because huge mirror is required for wide
angle lenses. With flipping configuration of twin GoPro HD camera
stereo base of 30 mm can be realized. This is a preliminary close-up
video using 30 mm stereobase twin GoPro HD video camera for my
dear Persian cat, Alice. Photos of twin Gopro 3D rigs are shown
at; http://v-galleries.com/images/Twin_GoPro_Rig/index.htm
■Single
Cam Stereoscopy Test ( Comparison between Pulfrich Effect and
Time-Difference ) （2009/11/26 added）
Uploaded file : 1280x960 Over/Under 10Mbps wmv (downsized version
of original HDV(1440x1080) right/left files)
Test using 3d video in Over/Under format with yt3d:left/right
tags.
To view this video in 3D, select viewing style first from 12 option
of drop down list box named "3D View Style", Red/cyan, amber/blue
etc. requires 3D glasses. Some other options, parallel and cross
etc. doesn't require any glasses. No viewing style with polarization
type glasses like Real D is supported by YouTube 3D so far. 3D
view style drop down menu may not appear unless using latest browser
and player plug in.
Music is licensed through Music Loops.
■Fireflies
at Sumiyoshi River, Kobe （2009/6/17 added）
Fireflies that came back to Kobe, 1.5 million population city
were shot on GH1 + FD50mm/F1.4 and edited for multiple exposure
video. Afterimage effect was also applied to visualize the locus
of flight in the postprocessing (latter part). A variety of interesting
flight movements can be seen. Noiseless black may be one of the
advantages of gh1 against camcorders.
■Akashi
Strait Bridge (Lumix GH1 Timelapse Night Shot Test) （2009/6/9 added）
Timelapse night shot of Akashi Strait Bridge, longest suspention
bridge in the world is tested on GH1 with Canon FD lens 50mm/F1.4,
28mm/F2.8 and kit lens at 28mm/F4.7 at video mode and interval
still photo mode, respectively. I found FD50mm/F1.4 can be used
even at video mode on GH1 under the circumstance although some
astigmatism occured. Kit lens can only be used at its continuous
shutter mode L (2 shots/sec) to get adequate eｘposure. Video with
FD28mm/F2.8 is apparently under exposure at the slowest shatter
speed of 1/30 sec. Brightness of FD50mm/F1.4 is more than expected
and more than calculated based on the shooting condition with
kit lens at interval mode. I don't know why.
It was a fine day today in Kobe. We had a walk in Kobe Forest
Park. It was just between flower season of rhodedendron and hydrangea.
This is one of series of testing GH1 video capability. Follow
focus and aperture was tested with Canon FD 50mm/F1.4 old lens
with ND filters (No.4-12) to adjust EV for full open aperture
and adequate shutter speed. Too much focus shift? That's true
because this is just a follow focus etude with heavy video tripod
in order to stabilize the focus shift operation. I found difficult
to focus which part of the subjects because of the shallow DOF.
■Kobe
Harbor Land (DMC-GH1+Canon FD Lenses Test at Night) （2009/5/15 added）
DMC-GH1 was tested under low light condition with Canon FD Lenses
attached using Raquel adapter. -FD 28mm/F2.8, 50mm/F1.4 and 135mm/F2.5
were used at full open aperture. -GH1 at creative video mode (Program
AE mode) -ISO fixed at 800 -1920x1080 AVCHD, 60i/24fps mode -Transcoded
to HDV (TMPGEnc) to edit and exported as mp4(1280x720) and m2t
(1440 anamorphic x1080) on Premiere As compared experimentally
with my old HDV comcorder Sony HC3 (11 lx at 1/60 sec shutter
speed), I estimated that GH1+ FD F1.4 lens corresponds 1.4 lx
at ISO 800, which is much better than the newest and brightest
Sony handycam model, HDR-X520V whose brightness specification
is 3 lx at 1/30 sec. I appreciate those old canon MF SRL lenses
for shooting bright video with Panasonic GH1 body very much.
■Tilt-Shift
Kobe City (DMC-GH1) （2009/5/14 added）
Lumix DMC-GH1 with kit lens was used to shoot Kobe City from
the 24F of the City Hall Building, not high enough for ideal
miniaturization. Tilt-Shift effect (miniature effect ) was faked
using soft... Lumix DMC-GH1 with kit lens was used to shoot
Kobe City from the 24F of the City Hall Building, not high enough
for ideal miniaturization. Tilt-Shift effect (miniature effect
) was faked using software blur and timelapse editing. Enjoy
miniature Kobe City !
The video mode of Panasonic DMC-GH1 micro four thirds digital
camera were tested with the kit lens (14-140mm/F4-5.8) using homemade
stabilizer and partly software stabilization for steady motion.
Two times slow motion keeping 30P was also tested by taking 720/60P
advantage.
■Panasonic
DMC-GH1 Stabilizer Test （2009/5/6 added）
Panasonic DMC-GH1 was tested with homemade stabilizer of ball-joint
gimbal type that costs about $10. I found 720P(60P) works much
better than 1080i(24P) for this type of video and also smooth
2X slow motion at 30fps can be editable by using this format
.
I recognize some improvement of the alignment of stabilizer
balance and the operating skill must be necessary
Photo of camera stabilizer with ball
joint type gimbal
:
The video creative mode of Panasonic DMC-GH1 micro four thirds
digital camera I got yesterday were tested with the kit lens
(14-140mm/F4-5.8) and Canon FD lens (50mm/F1.4, manual focus)
with Raycual adapter.
Cherry blossom at Shukugawa River Park in Nishinomiya was shot
with two of special stereoscopic HD video rigs,
1)2 Axis DOF (Degree of Freedom) Marco Rig photo: v-galleries.com/index.html#stereoscopic_2_axis_macro_rig
2)Stereoscopic Video rig with DOF (Depth of Focus) adapters. Photo:
v-galleries.com/index.html#Stereoscopic_DOF_HD_Video_Rig
Enjoy cherry blossom in 3D with two DOF's !!
■Stereoscopic
HD Video Rig for 2 Axis Macroscopy （2009/4/29 added）
Photograph of 2 Axis DOF (Degree of Freedom) Marco Rig developed
recently for stereoscopic HD video is shown above. The rig can
be rotate along X and Z axes around a certain point of the subject.
6 Dioptsr close-up lenses are used in this rig to have the working
distance of 150mm. Half mirror image splitter was used to have
stereobase of 10-20mm. This is an
extended model of the 1-axis rotatable (aroud Z-axis) Macro Rig
used to shoot "Waltz of Flowers.
Flowers can dance not only on the floor, but also off the floor! ■3D
Kyoto Higashiyama Flower Lantern Road Festival （2009/4/23 added）
Stereoscopic HD video of parallel side by side format on The Flower
lantern Road Festival held every March in Kyoto Higashiyama District.
2,400 Lanterns of both traditional and modern are arranged along
with the streets 4.8 km long. Laser and LED lights are also used
to illuminate the gardens and buildings of historic temples. Shot
with homemade stereoscopic video rig attatched with DOF adapters
consisting of 50mm/F1.4 DLR Lenses and Ee-A focusing screen in
front of HC3 HDV cameras.
■3D Magical
Starlight Parade at USJ （2009/4/19 added）
Brand new attraction at Universal Studio Japan, Osaka is digested
in 3D anaglyph. Shot by using home made stereoscopic rig with
DOF adapter in front of HC3 HDV video cameras. Canon FD SLR
lenses (50mm/F1.4), and Canon Ee-A focusing screen were used.
Moving floats was the difficult subjects for manually focus
DOF video and and causes Severe abbration (astigmatismic ?)
might be caused by full aperture for high contrast of LED illumination.
Enjoy the newest fantagy night parade in 3D!
Anaglyphic glasses (Red/Left, Cyan/Right) required to see this
video in 3D.
■Stereoscopic
DOF HD Video Rig （2009/4/19 added）
DOF adapter is one of the ways to add shallow DOF
to video, which is generally of panfocus because of its small
sensor size and small apaperture lens. DOF adapter uses SLR lens
that focus the image on some translucent screen ( at the position
of film of SLR) and ordinary video camera recording the image
on the screen. In my system Canon FD lens of 50mm/F1.4, 28mm/F2.8
and 135mm/F2.5 and Canon Ee-A focusing screen for EOS 5D DSLR.
My intension to develop this stereoscopic
DOF rig is to give shallow depth of focus even to stereoscopic
photo and video which must help to focus the viewer's attention
to the intensionally focused subjects and minimize the adverse
effects of background with too much deviation by blurring. I
am trying to confirm the usefullness by some projects.
Anaglyph images (red/left, cyan/right)
■Kobe
Port Sailboat Festa 2007 Remake (Short version, fine tuned) （2009/3/15 added）
2007/11/23 Two sailboats, Nippon-maru (2,278 ton) & Kaiwo-maru
called at Kobe Port celebrating her 140th anniversaries. They
showed "Sail Drill," expanding all of the sails. When
departing、All of trainees showed “Man the yards”, the highest
salute of the sailboat.
■Plum
Blossom at Okamoto Park, Kobe （2008/2/23 added）
Here is my second test video made with my DIY DOF adapter with
manual focus Canon wide aperture FD lenses for HC3 HDV. Static
focusing screen Canon Ee-A and dual Kenko No.5 AC close up lenses
used for the latest version. Battery operating 7" monitor is made
DIY as well for focusing and image flipping. The last problem
remained is dust on the focusing screen. Maintaining dust free
is hopelessly tough task! Enjoy early spring plum blossom in Japan!
Anaglyph photo of HC3 HDV with DIY DOF
Adapte r
■Crac
Des Chevaliers （2008/2/1 added）
We made trip to middle East this January to visit various world
heritage sites in Jordan and Syria. Crac des Chevaliers is the
ruin of fortress of Crusader knights built in 11th century at
west par... We made trip to middle East this January to visit
various world heritage sites in Jordan and Syria. Crac des Chevaliers
is the ruin of fortress of Crusader knights built in 11th century
at west part of Syria. Sorry for Japanese narration.
■New
Stereoscopic HD Video Rig （2008/12/31 added）
Here is a test video of my brand new homemade stereo video rig.
The stereobase is adjustable from 0 to 200 mm. Half mirror from
stereoscopic mirrors.com was used as an image splitter. Due to
the non optical quality of substrate glass, color correction is
needed to adjust tone of the R/L video clip. The cost of material
was only several tens of dollars. I think it works very well so
far.
Anaglyph photo of stereo video rig at
65 mm stereobase
■DIY
DOF Adapter Test （2008/12/23 added）
Here is test video with my home made DOF adapter HD video camera.
DOF (Depth Of Focus) adapter has a SLR lens in front of camcorder
to give nice Bokeh (Shallow DOF) to the video. Old Canon FD lenses
(manual aperture conyrollable) of 50mm/F1.4 and 135mm/F2.5 and
Canon Focusing screen Ee-A at the frange back position were used.
Many improvement will be neccesary including more precision manual
focusing and vibration of focusing
screen etc. I plan to make twin of
DOF adapter to realize stereoscopic DOF video system in the future.
■Wiggle
of Anaglyphs （2008/12/15 added）
Here is a wiggle version of anaglyphic macro hydrangea. Wiggle
is a technique giving viewer a good feel for the 3D of a scene.
Here is remake short version of "Waltz of Flowers"
■My
First DIY DOF Adapter HD Videos （2008/12/15 added）
This is just an experiment while waiting parts of DIY DOF adapter.
Camera:Canon FTb film SLR (50mm F/1.4) and Sony HC3 HDV
Focusing Screen:White film of plastic bag at film position of
SLR.
Stereoscopic DOF adapter video will be uploaded near future.
Photo of prototype DOF adapter rig (Anaglyphic
format = R/Cyan, L/Red glasses required)
■DOF
Controlled Stereoscopic HD Videos （2008/12/7 added）
DOF control may be used to optimize the dynamic depth range if
stereoscopic images of exccess stereobase and also to attract
the viewer to the objects of producer's intension. Here is a test
video clip of DOF controlled focus shift. A still stereo pair
is used. Depth maps of 5 flat levels was made manually and used
as moving blur mask for DOF control in postproduction.
One of the problems of binocular stereoscopy
is lack of the coincidence of eye focus position ( at screen,
display, nega or print ) and the position of pop-up ( or sink
down) objects, which may cause viewer's eye fatigue. In the
latter part of this video the disparity is kept zero at the
focused zone within DOF. It is not zooming but closing up with
constant focal length. How do you feel of this approach? I look
forward to your comments.
DOF controlled Anaglyph by depth map
blur. (Modified depth map made with Stereo Tracer 3.5)
Here is my 2nd attempt of DOF related HD Video which fakes focus
shift with virtual narrow-DOF video camera.
■Tilt-Shift
(Fake) Flight over Miniature San Francisco （2008/11/23 added）
Here is another tilt/shift HD video of San Francisco, both of
which are not real but a fake tilt/shift with Premiere post processing
and Google Earth CG. Enjoy a Gulliver's stereoscopic view of Lilliputians
San Francisco.
Compare VIMEO, YouTube and eyeVio for
HD video quality (Same upload file)!!
■Tilt-Shift(Fake)
Phantogram of San Francisco （2008/11/20 added）
Here are my first trial of stereoscopic tilt/shift HD video of San
Francisco down town, both of which are not real but a fake tilt/shift
with Premiere post processing and Google Earth CG. Enjoy a Gulliver's
stereoscopic view of Lilliputians San Francisco.
■3D
Sparkling Fireworks （2008/10/19 added）
This stereoscopic HD video was shot to check the R/L sync with
LANC Shepherd. The maker of the toy fireworks is Sanshu Kako.
The object-camera length/camera separation was about 10. Approximately
5 degree toe-in was applied to emphasize the depth. The sync have
been kept within 0.2 mS. 240fps shooting was not carried out as
the fireworks run out. Maybe next summer.
■Hyper
New York （2008/9/21 added）
Hyper HD video and photo movie shot from "Top of the Rocks"
of the Rockfeller Building. The stereobase was about 15 m without
any tripod as prohibited. Enjoy day and night 3D views of Manhattan
skyscrapers.
■3D
Street Dance at 5th Av., NY （2008/9/13 added）
Here is a 3D clip shot during our stay in New York last August.
I was impressed wirh the high level of street dance at thhe
%th avenue
Here
is my first attempt for 3D synthesis of anaglyph photos by using
Microsoft Photosynth service, started since 8/20. It is free
with 20GB disk space. http://photosynth.net/
For the anaglyph version, shown above,
the synth % is 77%, slightly smaller due to the reduced accuracy
in extracting the characteristic points in anaglyph. However,
anaglyphs ia proven to be synthed successfully anyway. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=B6A2F8E1-AD9E-4BD5-AADA-48B685E4614E
Enjoy stereoscopic walkthrough to the
Yuzuruha Shrine just like QTVR panorama and object style.
Thank you, Microsoft for the great service.
■2008
Ashiya Beach Fireworks （2008/7/20 added）
Here is stereoscopic fireworks 2008 video. Three weeks earlier
than last year with more, 5000 launch. Close up was planned theme,
however it was difficult without any monitor and wireless control
of the twin cameras 20 m apart.
■Waltz
of the Flowers （2008/7/10 added）
I made various flowers dancing waltz like in the "Nutcracker"
by Tchaikovsky, by mean of a macro
rig with half mirror type image splitter and close-up lenses of
6 diopter. Making of this video is briefly introduced by still stereoscopic
photoes at the end of the video.
The below is anaglyphic GIF animation of objecting 3D macro rig
in operation.
Enjoy 3D dancing various flowers and bugs
in format of a quarter pixel wmv (1920x540) and smaller format(960x270)
for slower PCs. Full HD R/L separate files
(1920x1080x2, 2.6GB) are also available upon request.
■Objecting
and zooming of Rose with new HDV macro rig （2008/6/21 added, 6/22 Rig video added）
Shooting of flowers in 3D is one of my my favorite things.
Using macro rig with half mirror type image splitter and close-up
lenses of 6 diopter, I have shot hydrangea, Roses, Rhodedendron
and Iris since last summer.
Very recently I developed new home made rig that make me be able
to shoot flowers ( natrurally fixed with ground) like QTVR or Bullet
shot in Matrix Movies ( Pseudo time slice) in HD stereoscopic format
in adition to the synchlonized zooming into the center of the flowers.
Could you guess what kind of 3D HD video rig is used to shoot this
small video clip?
Please enjoy a small clip of "last
rose of spring" made with my latest toy rig.
■25Mbps,
78MB, 1440x 1080, 0:33, m2t files (
R and L
separeted files for dowload, You
will be required powerful PC to play back dual m2t streams with
Stereoscopic Player)
■Kobe
Port Sailboat Festa 2007 （2008/6/1 added）
2007/11/23 Two sailboats, Nippon-maru (2,278 ton) & Kaiwo-maru
called at Kobe Port celebrating her 140th anniversaries. They showed
"Sail Drill," expanding all of the sails. When
departing、All of trainees showed “Man the yards”, the highest salute
of the sailboat.
Helicopter shot was shaky and stabilized
by using virtualDub+Deshaker to make 3D video from left camera
video with time difference method with 4 frame delay.
Original shaky 2D video
960x540, 1Mbps
■Spring
Festival of Yuzuriha Shrine, Mikage Kobe （3D version ： 2008/5/18 added）
On 3rd and 4th of May the spring festival
of Yuzuriha Jinja, small shintoh shrine in Mikage, Kobe was held.
"Danjiri"floats powered by local residents gathered from
eight groups in this area to dedicate the spring festival. This
shrine was told to be originated ca
200AD. Enjoy the stereovideogenic performance of spider's thread
and paper blizzard by Yumiba Team Float.
■Nice
Catch （3D：2008/5/2 added）
I shot this HDV Video at a park in Perth, WA last January. Someone
was feeding to sea gulls. The 60i HD 3D video are edited to 3 fps
slow motion videos. Any completely synced still photo is somewhat
freezed "another world", I think. However series of synced
stills of even less resolution (1440 anamorphic x 1080) and less
shutter speed ( video camera decides it in commodity HDV camera
) might add some additional dimension into 3D world. Could you find
which sea gull got each of three? feeds in the second clip? We needs
more time resolution anyway.
■Runway
32L, Osaka International Airport （3D：2008/4/29 added）
Public can access to several tenth meter from the south end of West
side runway. Airliners land 20 m high above the observers. With
hyper 3D rig of 45 cm base was used to shoot landing and taking
off airliner. 3D Google Earth video added also. This airport is
used mainly as domestic flights since Kansai International Airport
open. It was a windy day, you can see sliding landings. Adjustment
of 3D alignment was required even frame to frame due to vibration
of rig with wind. I hev experienced same situation when shooting
from a driving car. I wonder why because the rigidity of my 3D rig
may be rigid enough. ( 1.0" by 0.5" Aluminum extruded
bar used )
■3D
Milk Crown Video （3D：2008/4/20 added）
Here is a preliminary 3D milk crown video made with a dual consumer
HDV camera rig, not with high speed video cameras required generally.
With macro rig by means of half mirror type beam splitter, stereobase
was set to 20 mm. By using the smooth slow recording function of
Sony HC3 video, Milk crown ( milk drops from 30 cm height into 1
mm deep pool of milk ) was shot at 240fps of SSR mode. The clip
was edited to be stereoscopically aligned and time video stretched
x5 times to get nominal 1200fps clip. The sync was controlled with
a LANC Shepherd within 0.1 mS. The spacial and time resolution are
not enough for this fast phenomena (10-20 mS) with these cheap commercial
equipments, however the 3D crown can be recognized anyway in the
video. Enjoy the instantaneous crown shape of milk in 3DTV.
■2008
Cherry Blossom at Sukugawa (Nishinomiya City) （3D：2008/4/5 added、2D：in edition）
Shukigawa River is in Nishinomiya City, residential district between
Osaka and Kobe Cities. It is well known as a cherry blossom place
in contrast with large green pine trees and their sprigs with cherry
blossom spread down to the river surface from the banks. 3rd and
4th of April I shot them with dual HC3 HDV with hyper stereo rig
(SB=18cm), homemade stabilizer rig (SB=11cm) and close-up b(+6 diopter)
macro rig (SB=2cm). Sync was <0.1mS with LANC controller. Enjoy
one of Japanese spring beauty in 3D !
■Illuminated
Kobe （2008/2/9 added）
Thirteen years have passed since the earthquake (7.2 on the Richter
magnitude) disaster in 1995. The restoration newliness has gradually
melted into the urban vista of Kobe City. In the holiday season
its brilliancy get increased by the illumination with LED's of a
variety of colors. Illumination at Akashi Strait Bridge, the longest
suspension bridge in the world, Harbor Land, Meriken (American)
Park, Old foreigner' Residential District and Luminarie, Requiem
event for the earthquake victims at the Old Foriegn Settlement District
is introduced by 2D and 3D HD video, . May all of the 6434 victims
rest in peace here in buatifully illuminated Kobe.
■Kobe
Port Sailboat Festa 2007 （200７/12/10 added）
2007/11/23 Two sailboats, Nippon-maru (2,278 ton) & Kaioh-maru
called at Kobe Port celebrating her 140th anniversaries. They showed
"Sail Drill," expanding all of the sails. When
departing、All of trainees showed “Man the yards”, the highest salute
fo the sailboat.
Helicopter shot was shaky and stabilized
by using virtualDub+Deshaker to make 3D video from left camera
video with time difference method with 4 frame delay.
■i-sobot
Video Phantogram （200７/12/9）
Here is a phantogram video trial of Omnibot 17μ i-SOBOT ( Takara
Tomy's humanoid type robot )
It works well with remote control mode, program mode, special
action mode and voice control mode although it costs only about
$200.
It's fun to program control. I may add various motion phantogram
video in the future.
■1Mbps,4MB,
960x 540. side by side wmv file（0:34）
a half downsized version of original HDV Use Stereo Movie Player to play this side by side with
anaglyph mode for better, ghostless Phantogram.
■3D
Diving into Roses （200７/11/20）
With my half
mirror type macro stereo rig , 3D macroscopic video of roses
was shot at Suma Pallace Park, Kobe City. Sync was kept within
1 mS by using LANC Shepherd. Maximun magnification is 6 mm/1080
pixel ( i.e video screen corresponds to 6mmx10mm ) )with +6 Diopter
close up lens at x 10 zoom of HC3.
Enjoy 3D diving into center of roses. See the
hydrangea version (Macro Test 5) as well.
■3D
Driving Hanshin Expressway, Osaka Japan （200７/11/14）
Just a stereoscopic test HD video of night driving. Dual HC3 cameras
rig of 17.5 mm SB was fixed on the dash board. Sync was kept within
0.1 mS by using LANC Shepherd. However in the editing, a lot of
alignment adjustment (mainly Up/Down)of RL video was required
for this vibrational shooting environment. Animated alignment
function will be desired in the stereoscopic video editing software
like SMM of Muttyan. I had to do them manually on 50% transparency
R over L track sequence of Adobe Premiere.
Enjoy night drive in Osaka with a MSM Groria's BGM.
■Stereoscopic
Firework Fantasy （200７/9/1 added, 2007/10/20 remake replaced）
Here is collage of my hyper stereoscopic
video of fireworks with various kind of effects. No scene
sound but Bach Brandenburg Concelt for BGM. Enjoy 2007 fireworks
fantasy.
■Stereoscopic
3D Tour to Stanford University （200７/8/30 added）
Stanford University at Palo Alto is guided in stereoscopic HD video.
On my way back to Japan from ISU Conference held at Boise, IDAHO,
I dropped in Silicon Valley Area where I and my wife used to live
20 years ago. Vast campus, Spanish colonial style buildings, Art
museums are guided in 3D !!
Christchurch is the Garden City, the most English city outside England.
In the Hagley Park at the center of the city, there is Christchurch
Botanic Garden in the center of Hagley Park. This HD video guides
you to the famous Rose Garden of over 250 species, herbaceous border,
dahlia border and begonia conservatory. Those video was shot in
January of 2007, which was fifth time visit to the city. It was
just I developed my homemade stabilizer for HC-3 video camera and
used extensively.
Tarui is a small town in Gifu Prefecture,
Japan. It was a old town along Nakasendoh, a main travel route to
Edo( Ancient Tokyo) from Kyoto. Kabuki performance acted by local
young boys only have been served to the local shrine, Yaegaki Shrine
for 650 years. It was originated to entertain an emperor temporarily
visited the town. The kabuki are playing on three "Dashi",
finely decorated moving stages around the streets of the town for
three days in every May. Enjoy the traditional local festival.
■Ashiya
Summer Festival Fireworks
Here are second etude of hyper stereoscopic HD video of fireworks
with Sony HC3 HDV cameras with dual tripod
Fireworks were 2 sec (about 700 m) distant,
stereobase 30 steps (about 18m), nearer and shorter than the
previous. There is no distractions in front of cameras because
I shot from beach front(however sand does not allow accurate
setting of tripods unfortunately) and this video is more closed-up
consequently than the previous . Please enjoy Japanese fireworks.
■Kobe
Port 140th Anniversary Fireworks
Here are some etude of hyper stereoscopic HD video by with Sony
HC3 HDV cameras with dual tripod
Kobe City Port celebrates its 140th anniversary.
On 4th August, 2007, Fireworks (6000 shots) was held from 19:30
to 20:30.
The camera point was at The Shiosai Park, in front of Meriken
Park (below) . Port Tower (108 m tall) is in the center of video
field.
Stereobase was about 25m while distance from the launching site
was about 1.2km. A large patrol vessel happened to stroll in
front of two cameras during the firework unfortunately. Please
enjoy my first Hyper Stereoscopic Fireworks !! Any comment will
be appreciated to improve my hyper stereo shooting or editing.
■Stereoscopic
Guide to "Kobe Meriken Park"
Here is my first HDV Stereoscopic video work. The theme of the
video is a introductory tour to the waterfront park of Kobe City
(1.4 million population), in which I am living for long. Sorry
for the narration still in Japanese.
Dual HDV cameras (Sony HC3) are mounted
on a homemade handheld stabilizer. (Photo)
Synchronization of dualcam by a infrared remote controller (
camera accessory ) works well for shooting start/stop and zooming.
Of course it is only less than half frame accuracy basis as
HC3 have not any genlock mechanism.
Originally R/L m2t (1440x1080 anamorphic (4/3) pixel) files
were edited by using Premiere Pro 2.0 only and downsized to
parallel side_by_side m2t file (a quarter resolution 1920x540).
Then it was converted to wmv file.
It was time-consuming process and I
felt a order of magnitude larger effort is required as compared
to the SD case. I appreciate anyone could comment better editing
flow for the full HDV stereoscopic video. I have never played
my full resolution separate m2t files as Muttyan's SMP doesn't
accept them. Informing of capable stereoscopic player will be
appreciated, however only anaglyph format I could check as my
largest LCD display is 1920x1200.
Here are another etudes of my video
phantogram. The targets are selected to be expected suitable
for video phantograms.
1) Ducks in a pond
2) Looking down from 3rd floor at walking crowds at 1st and
2nd floors
3) Fly through over the skyscraper of Big Apple (Google Earth
3DCG)
http://v-galleries.com/
I learned authoring video phantogram is time consuming at present
as several softwares (Premiere, SMM, TMPEGEnc etc.) required
and the final video quality is rather deteriorated because of
large deformation and repeated compression/decompression in
the procedure. Best case for video phantogram will be objects
of about half of distance between camera and base plane of phantogram,
it will be limited to special situation. Seeking suitable objects
will be the key to success for good phantogram.
■Video
Phantogram of Alice （Phantogram ）
Here is my Video Phantogram Trial clip. 45 degree look down
over a horizontal flat display with anaglyph(R-Cyan) glasses
results in poping-up of my favorite Persian cat pet, Alice from
and moving on the floor. I use a LCD display of note book PC
flattened over the desk top horizontally. http://v-galleries.com/
or direct url below.
In the case the lookup angle mode does not work well because
of liquid crystal angle issue, I prepare a
file for look-down mode viewing from top side edge (Up side
down reverted).
You can look down over upper edge of horizontally positioned
note PC LCD display with this for viewing.
640x480 stereoscopic video pairs was shot in 45 degree look
down mode and edited by using Premiere Pro 2.0 and Muttyan's
SMM.
Here is another stereoscopic video I shot a week ago at "Tokyo
Midtown" just opened last March in Roppongi.
http://www.tokyo- midtown.com/ en/
It was shot by using dual Z850 video mode with homemade handheld
stabilizer shown below.
Enjoy a stabilized walkthrough into the brand new urban complex.
■Hankyu
Railways Stroll Guide Series No.1 「Mikage Station」
Stroll Guides Around Stations for tens of stations of Hankyu
Railway lines is popular locally in Kansai area, In my town,
Mikage ( a part of urban area of 1.3 million Kobe City ) there
is Mikage Station of its Kobe line. About ten points of interest
around the area are guided for two hour walking tour. This area
is developed based on water mill utilizing rapid stream of Sumiyoshi
River from Mt. Rokko. Rice was ground there for Japanese sake
and used at Nada brewing area nearby. In 19th century Mikage
was developed as a residential area for wealthy business successes
such as Takeda, Itoh, Kanoh, Murayama and many others.
Many points of interest like museums, temples, shrines are introduced
in this video in stereoscopic format, which WA shot using video
(640x480 SD quality) mode of dual Z850 digital camera with home
built stabilizer shown below in this page. I had produced HD
(2D) version of same theme, it was much easier than stereoscopic
version to edit non linearly using Premiere Pro2.0, Stereo Movie
Maker with VirtualDub with Deshaker, etc. Ilook forward to some
automated authoring software for stereoscopic video production.
Enjoy Mikage, my town with full blooming cherry blossoms in
3D !
Sorry for Japanese narration and captions in this video.
■Stereoscopic
Video made of a stabilized monoscopic video clip
By using
one monocloscopic clip out of dual
cam stereoscopic
video shot
with a mechanically stabilizing rig (shown
4th below), a pseudo-stereoscopic
video was edited based on the SFM (Structure From Motion)
technique. Actually only
conventional non linear editing (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0) was
used, without no calculation of depth map etc.
It should be noted that even in this case of straight
forward movement, simple edition of time-shift two clips
of single video is found to be effective to get enough parallax
for both side of vanishing point.
Time shift technique requires strict stability of images, especially
for up & down and rotation displacement. Stabilization by
a software (VirtualDub with DeShaker filter) was applied over
mechanically stabilized images for this particular test video.
As show here along with
single HDV cam stereoscopic test video ( 1st
below ), single cam stabilized shooting in almost any movement
mode ( Translation, Targeting around object, Panning and Straight
forward walk through, no Up & Down and Rotation) is able
to be edited to a pseudo-stereoscopic video without any computation.
■Single Camera
HDV stereoscopic Video with Stabilizer
It have been shown that a special technique can provide stereoscopic
parallax even in a single video camera. It is well known that
translating and object shooting movement of single video
camera can realize stereoscopic video by using time difference
method to generate the stereoscopic parallax. In the stereoscopic
panorama photo (like QTVR Pano) area, Mosaicing technique is
well known.
Here its principle is extended to the video. By shooting
with handheld panning movement of stabilized single HDV(HC3)
video camera, stereoscopic panning video was edited by using
only ordinary editing software (Adobe Premier Pro 2.0).
Image stabilization of the
handheld video camera by isolating from the shooter using mechanical
stabilizer is important for this technique because up&down,
tilt and roll can cause severe ghost especially in this time-difference
stereoscopic method. The quality of the stereoscopic video of
this method is not excellent at present, however, I think the
improvement of mechanical and also software stabilization of
video image (e.g. virtualDub+Deshaker) will be expected to contribute
a significant improvement of the stereo video quality near future.
Unfortunately only static
scene could be shot in this method by principle.
I am planning to purchase one more HC3 for more robust HDV stereoscopic
video production as my hobby.
■Botanical
Garden of Miracle Planet, Awaji JAPAN
HDV and Stereo Video clips taken by home
made stabilized rigs are shown
for walk through in the large conservatory of "Miracle Planet
Botanical Garden, Awajishima, Hyogo Pref. Japan.
■2006 Kobe
City Luminarie HDV and Stereo Video clips taken by home
made stabilized rigs are shown
for walk through in the large conservatory of "Miracle Planet
Botanical Garden, Awajishima, Hyogo Pref. Japan.
■Walk Through in Conservatory
of Kobe Herbal Garden
HDV and Stereo Video clips taken by home
made stabilized rigs are shown
for walk through in the large conservatory of "Miracle Planet
Botanical Garden, Awajishima, Hyogo Pref. Japan.
Stereo video camera system consists of
dual digital cameras of CASIO Z850 ( 8M pixel photo and MPEG4
AVI video capability ( over 60min with 2GB SD cards), stabilized
using home made rig with ball joint typegjimbal system. Total
weight of the system isonly about one pound. No fatigue at all
! Controllability of panning is excellent and 5min walk through
clip was easy to shoot.Please eEnjoy a stereo walk through in
the conservatory, which is really stereo photogenic.
■Autumn Leaves at Arima Zuihoji
Temple（06/12/11）
Here is a HD video clip of Autumn Leaves at Zuihoji, Arima (famous
hot spring resort in Japan)
Hideyoshi, ancient Japanese ruler in the Momoyama era loved this
garden very much. As he was never bored to appreciate the autumn
leaves from dawn to dusk, it is called Higurasi no niwa, that means
"all day long garden". Enjoy typical Japanese autumn leaves,
maple trees with leaves turning red by a stabilized HD video.
■Yosemite
National Park Stereoscopic Video （06/12/9）
Here is a stereoscopic HD video clip
of Yosemite National Park, California
USA. Yosemite Valley locates 200miles east of San Francisco. There
are huge rocks e.g. El Capitan (3000ft high litho), Half Dome graved
by the ancient glacier and beautiful forest along with Merced River.
You will be warping there from San Francisco within several minutes
by Google trip machine in a stereoscopic mode. Enjoy the trip,
Parallel method stereoscopic movie made
with Google Earth. View by using naked eye method or stereo viewer.
By using Stereo
Movie Player, you are able to enjoy stereoscopic video clips
by many kind of stereo viewing, including parallel, Cross mrthods,
Anagryph, Sharp 3D LCD Display and LCD shutter method.
■Kauai Lawai Valley Stereoscopic
Video （06/12/5）
Here is a stereoscopic HD video clip of Lawai Valley, Kauai Island.
There is two out of 5 gardens of National Tropical Botanical Gardens
in the valley, Allerton and McBryde. Queen Emam of King Kamahamaha
IV loved the valley and build a summer house up on the top of the
cliff of the valley. In December and January, a lot of purple bougainvillea
blooms there. I think it is one of the typical Hawaiian paradise
habitat.
Parallel method stereoscopic movie made
with Google Earth. View by using naked eye method or stereo viewer.
By using Stereo
Movie Player, you are able to enjoy stereoscopic video clips
by many kind of stereo viewing, including parallel, Cross methods,
Anagryph, Sharp 3D LCD Display and LCD shutter method.
■Island Breeze Remake（2006/12/4）
Video taken with stabilizer in Oct.
2006 in Kauai, Hawaii. Google Earth
Movie is added. Taken by shooting a
display screen where only Google Earth is running and displayed.
Direct saving by using Window Media Encoder resulted not smooth
footage due to the luck of CPU power.
Original file：m2t format 2,150MB, 10:50 1440x1080
■Stereoscopic stabilized Video
Trial in HD format
Video taken with stabilizer in Oct.
2006 in Kauai, Hawaii
Selected clips of traversing scene are utilized for time
difference type stereoscopic video (parallel type) This is
just a first trial of HD stereoscopic video for me. Stereoscopic
video goes high difinition now.
Original file：m2t format 592MB, 0:38 3840x1080
■Island Breeze in Kauai Island
Video taken with stabilizer in Oct.
2006 in Kauai, Hawaii
Original file：m2t format 1,601MB, 8:05
■0.5Mbps,
30MB, 320x 180
■1.2Mbps,
70MB, 640x 360
■4.2Mbps,
244MB, 1280x720
■5.2Mbps,
315MB, 1920x1080, Used VBR encoding to save the bit rate. Try
to play full HD
resolution streaming video if you have high enough
connection, CPU and Graphics card power.
■8.2Mbps,
476MB, 1920x1080, full HD of adequate encoding data rate, only
for high network bandwidth (deleted due to the disk capacity
limit of the site.
■Summer Afternoon at Kobe Herbal
Garden Video taken with stabilizerin Sept.
2006 in Kobe Herbal Garden, Japan First outdoor shooting with a prototype just 2 week after my
stabilizer project started.
A little bit shaky because of inappropriate vertical balance adjustment.
Taking advantage of that shake, edited for slow motion (67% of frame
rate) to enhance the floating sense. Captions in Japanese.
Original file：m2t format 1,562MB,7:43)
using internet storage provider (5GB), therefore the streaming bandwidth
not guaranteed.
Video camera stabilizer
Camera：Sony HC3
Total weight： 760g
details coming soon.
Please visit HBSForum
Website where my rig is introduced in the handheld category.
HDV
Stereo Cameras with hand-held stabilizer New on 4/5/2007
Video Camera ： Sony HC3 x 2
Stereo base : 12.5mm for the photo case
Weight with stabilizer ： 1540g
Shutter/Zoom Control ： IR remote controller ( working well synchronously)
Details will be posted soon.
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
Dual
Digital Camera Stabilizer for Stereoscopic Video
Camera：CASIO Z850 x 2
Video Mode：640x480、avi(MPEG4)movie, Over 60min with 2GB SD card
Photo ： 3264x2448/eye
Total weight： 540g
HDV
Camera Stabilizer
Camera：Sony HC1
Total weight： 1070g
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
DV
Video Camera Stabilizer
Camera：Sony DCR-P300
Total weight： 950g
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
Telemacro
Stereoscopic HD Video Rig-1
Video Camera：Sony HC3 x 2
HC3 have Telemacro function that allows to focus as near as
37cm at its 10x optical zoom tele-end. The view angle at telemacro
mode is quite small and a surface mirror for R-CAM(left camera
in photo) can be close to 15mm outside of the optical axis of
L-CAM(right camera in photo) without interference That arrangement
realizes 30mm stereoscopic base. For objects nearer to 37cm
will require half-mirror type rig, which is under prototyping.
Test Video Clip：Desktop Objects and Roses（Distance
from camera：70-120cm）, downsized to a quarter pixels from dual
m2t format. Telemacro Video Test
(1920x540 Parallel side-by-side wmv file, 11.8MB, 2Mbps )
Comments after edition
-Panning at tele-end requires high performance tripod
-Telemacro function will be reset when zooming.
-Insects required
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
Telemacro
Stereoscopic HD Video Rig-2
Video Camera：Sony HC3 x 2 (Telemacro
mode) half-mirror type rig.
Inconel evaporated half mirror, 100mm
wide is used for L-cam:transmission and R-cam:reflection. Transmission/Reflection
is 30%/30% at specification. Inconel type were selected because
of flat wavelength characteristics. The stereo base is adjustable
from 10mm to 30mm.
Test Video Clip：Desktop Objects and Roses（Distance
from camera：40-50cm）, downsized to a quarter pixels from dual
m2t format. Telemacro Video Test2
(1920x540 Parallel side-by-side wmv file, 22.6MB, 2Mbps ) Telemacro Video Test4
(Stereo base dependence Test)
(1920x540 Parallel side-by-side wmv file, 22.6MB, 2Mbps )
It was found that SB=30mm is best （near to the humann vison),
which is more than twice larger than 1/30 rule.
Comments after edition
-R CAM(Reflection side) is slightly brighter for this particular
half mirror.
-Slightly less stereo depth (SB=15mm may be better)
-Shaky because of high magnification in windy condition
-Insects required
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
Macro
Stereoscopic HD Video Rig-3
Video Camera：Sony HC3 x 2 (with close-up
lens, not using Telemacro mode) half-mirror type rig.on
Acryl resin base plate (5mmt)
HC3 with close-up lens (+3 diopsy) can be used close up shooting
to about 300mm distance from the object. This setting allows
zooming out from macro position to x10 optically, which causes
to cancel the telemacro mode in case of telemacro mode used
in th previous settling.
The stereo base was fixed to 20mm throughout this test. Consequent
maximum magnification was 1.2cm/1080 pixel for this particular
configuration.
Test Video Clip 1： Telemacro Video Test3
Gardenia flower was test shot at distance of 30cm. Small bugs
(calculated length is about 0.7mm) can be seen at the flower
center. downsized to a quater pixels from dual m2t format. It
is a little bit difficult to get focused because of small depth
of field and focus range. however it will be useful to expand
the dynamic range of macro video shooting.
Test Video
Clip 2： Telemacro Video Test5
Variety of hydrangea at Kobe Municipal Arboretum, famous on
250 variety of world hydrangea.
Using two No3. Close-up lens（Hakuba CF-CU330SD, +6 Diopter）
for each HC3 HDV video camera, close-up stereoscopic video of
a ant (8mm long) and a watch is presented. Object distance is
about 150mm with 15mm stereobase. It may be the limit of this
macro configuration using half mirror due to the color aberration
and the close object distance. I would like to shoot the ant
like old SF movie, where giant ant roars liihn-liihn from looking
up angle, but failed as it does not stay there. I don't remember
the title of the movie. Telling me the title will be appreciated.
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
HD
Macro Stereo Camera4(2007/7/31)
Video Camera：Sony HC3 x 2 with 4 mirror
type beam splitter type rig.on
Acryl resin base plate (5mmt)
In the half mirror type rig, dual video camera are configured
to 90 deg arrangement, which is not appropriate for the combination
together with hyper rig. 4 mirror type beam splitter is evaluated.
The stereo base is continuously variable
from 30mm to 80mm. Only Tele side of zoom can be used because
of the view angle limitation. This could be attached to my hyper
rig whose photo shown left below .
Small flower is test shot at distances
of 30cm(with +3 diopter close up lens) and 2m with continuously
changing stereo bases from 30mm to 80mm. As a result, there
are depth change but no significance was observed. The reason
may be coming from the thin subject with no background. The
moving of flower is not due to panning but caused by adjusting
the convergence shift during the base change, in the post editing
process.
Synchronaization
Test using LANC Shepherd
(2007/9/11)
Video Camera：Sony HC3 x 2
Dual HC3 system is tested of synchronization performance by
using LANC Shepherd, which Mr.Noguchi kindly lend me .
In conclusion, less than 1mS sync is realized for 6 min. long
stereoscopic video shooting with a specific procedure of switch
on. This limitation comes from sync drift, might be affected
by various conditions.
Without LANC Shepherd, sync spreads 0-16 mS, average of 7.1
mS was found as expected for this particular camera. LANC
Shepherd can improve one or two order of magnitudes better sync
for dual HC3 system. photo modes of this video camera are 2304x1728
(4:3) and 2304x1296 (16:9) for 1/3 type CMOS Imaging Sensor.
■Sync Video Test
(1920x540 Parallel side-by-side wmv file, 13MB, 2.2Mbps，0:46
)
Dual HD display System
Stereoscopic HD Video Playback System
of Mirror Type.
I have never been able to see my 3D video works in full FD resolution
which I edited because of the lack of adequate play back environment.
Finally I could with a home made system with mirror and dual
WUXGA displays!! The principle is same as introduced by John
Hart (Colorado) at http://www.crystalcanyons.net/Pages/TechNotes/DualMonitorDigitalViewing.shtm
Two 24" displays (1920x1200) and a sputtered
surface mirror are set together with angle of 0, 120 and 60
degree, respectively. Dual HD video streams, horizontally flipped
R-HD video(/image) in the right display (reflected side) and
non flipped L-HD video(/image) in the left display are play
back with Stereoscopic Player for HD video （and SPM for HD photo
as well), respectively. Windows PC with Core2Quad CPU, 4GB memory
and Nvidia 8600GT graphics card can play back smoothly of dual
m2t files.
As there is no loss of brightness in
the polarized passive systems, no horizontal resolution loss
in X-Pol or interlaced systems and no cross talk in this digital
mirror viewer system. Therefore bright, high resolution, immersive
(FOV=60 degree), ghost free and natural color 3D playback is
realized.
Anaglyph Format（R:Cyan, L:Red)
■Panasonic
Lumix GH1 base Stereoscopic Rig （2009/7/31 added）
Twin GH1 with Kit Lens(14-140mm/F4-5.6) Stereobase =135mm, Twin
GH1 with Canon FD lenses
Twin
GH1 with Kit Lens(14-140mm/F4-5.6) Stereobase = 85mm
Twin GH1 sync test.
Specially designed remote shutter is used to sync. From video
analyses of velocity difference between upstream and downstream
( more than 20 m/S) The sync is found to be around sub mS..
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Any comment will be appreciated.
Katsuhiko Inoue, Kobe Japan
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Twin
GH1 with Kit Lens(14-140mm/F4-5.6) Stereobase = 85mm
