Patent ID: 7324594

Claim:
A system for encoding a plurality of videos acquired of a moving object in a scene by a plurality of fixed cameras, comprising: means for determining camera calibration data of each camera of a plurality of cameras; means for concurrently acquiring a plurality of videos of the 3D moving object in a scene with the plurality of cameras, in which there is one video acquired by each camera; means for associating the camera calibration data of each camera with the video acquired by the camera; means for determining a segmentation mask for each frame of each video, the segmentation mask identifying only pixels in the frame associated with the moving object; a shape encoder configured to encode the segmentation masks; a position encoder configured to encode a 3D position of each pixel; a color encoder configured to encode a color of each pixel; and means for combining the encoded segmentations masks, pixel positions and colors of the pixels to form a 3D bitstream representing the moving object.