A New Spherical Light Field Database for Immersive Telecommunication and Telepresence Applications

This database is proposed by the Realistic 3D research group at Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden. The database details are explained thoroughly in a submission to QoMEX 2024, and the database has been reviewed as part of the submission. This work will be presented at QoMEX 2024 at Karlshamn, Sweden.

The database README file will be slightly updated to reflect the citation information as given below, after the QoMEX 2024 conference. You can use this database in your work, provided that you cite the database as below:

Zerman, E., Gond, M., Takhtardeshir, S., Olsson, R., & Sjöström, M. (2024). A Spherical Light Field Database for Immersive Telecommunication and Telepresence Applications. The 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). IEEE. (Accepted - to be presented)

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{zerman2024spherical,  title = {A Spherical Light Field Database for Immersive Telecommunication and Telepresence Applications},  author = {Zerman, Emin and Gond, Manu and Takhtardeshir, Soheib and Olsson, Roger and Sj{\"o}str{\"o}m, M{\aa}rten},  booktitle = {The 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)},  year = {2024},  organization = {IEEE},  note = {(Accepted - to be presented)}}

This database contains 20 spherical light fields of 1 x 60 views, captured with a consumer-grade 360-degree camera: Insta360 X3. The capture is done using a dolly to ensure the separation between consecutive views is exactly 1 cm. In addition to the original captures, this database also provides outputs for two different use cases: compression and view synthesis. Several parameters, features, and objective quality metric values are also included.