METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PANORAMIC VIDEO

A method and an apparatus for generating 3D panoramic video are provided. In the method, plural frames are captured from a panoramic video. Each frame is transformed into a polyhedral mapping projection comprising side planes, a top plane and a bottom plane. Displacements of pixels in the side planes are calculated by using the side planes of each frame, and displacements of pixels in the top plane and the bottom plane are calculated by using the displacements of the side planes. Then, the pixels in the side planes, the top plane and the bottom plane of each frame are shifted according the displacements of the polyhedral mapping projection to generate a shifted polyhedral mapping projection. The shifted polyhedral mapping projection is transformed into a shifted frame with 2D space format. The shifted frames and corresponding frames construct 3D images and the 3D images are encoded into a 3D panoramic video.