The interest in 3D is constantly growing thanks to recent cinema involving in 3D movies, both at user side and content producers one. Bring 3D at home is seen as a possible great market. Nowadays stereoscopic displays and Blu-ray 3D players are next to hit the market and give a first sample of 3D home perception. The fundamental principle underlying 3D TV conversion techniques rests on the fact that stereoscopic viewing involves binocular processing by the human visual system of two slightly dissimilar images [1,2]. There are considered to be at least three, possibly five generations of 3D TV which will progressively come into play in the years ahead [3]. The 3D TV we speak of today is usually First Generation - stereoscopic television based on two camera images, which are shot, edited, encoded and delivered to the viewer, who will have some arrangement (usually special glasses) to ensure that the left and right eye signals get to the corresponding eye. The main commercial requirement for the today 3D TV specification is that broadcasters can use an existing DVB HDTV broadcast channel, and viewers can use an existing or suitably adapted receiver to receive the 3D TV content [4].
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