FTV is an innovative technology that allows one to view a distant 3D world by freely changing the
viewpoint. FTV will open a new era in the history of television since such a function has not yet
been achieved by conventional TV technology.
To achieve free navigation functionality additional requirements are posed other than the
conventional video transmission. This Recommendation specifies requirements for transmission of
the FTV video under the structure that are also defined in this Recommendation. This
Recommendation only defines a system aspect in order to avoid overlap work in the coding and
view generation technologies.
ITU-T J.901-2008 history
2008ITU-T J.901-2008 Requirements for the free viewpoint television (FTV) video transmission system