Naked-eye 3D videos acquired by single-camera unmanned aerial vehicle

A method of naked-eye 3D video acquisition using a single-camera unmanned aerial vehicle is proposed in order to solve the problem which is difficuit for an unmanned aerial vehicle to carry a camera array flight shooting. The method uses a single-camera unmanned aerial vehicle to shoot videos at constant speed in a horizontal direction based on the parallel camera array. The videos with horizontal parallax are acquired by the corresponding frames which are extracted from the shot video with a certain frame distance. The stereo video source for a naked-eye 3D display is produced. The horizontal parallax value of the videos can be adjusted by different frame distances which can be calculated by the shooting distances of different scenes according to the method. The feasibility of the proposed method is verified by the comparison of the experimental results on a naked-eye 3D display. This research provides a reference for the videos naked-eye 3D display by shooting the real 3D scene using the normal unmanned aerial vehicle.