The future of televised entertainment lies in the third dimension. However, knowledge of destination makes the road no less challenging, as the obstacles ahead are insurmountable without a cooperation in distinct fields such as capturing 3D scenery, data transmission, 3D signal processing and 3D displays, which in turn span a wide range of topics from imaging to signal processing, telecommunications to optics and physics.

The objective of 3DTV-CON 2008 is to provide a medium for pioneering researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to come together, identify and discuss the current problems, share their recent research results, and pool their resources to further 3D vision research to new horizons.

3DTV-CON 2008 is organized by the EU IST 3DTV Network of Excellence, Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University. The event is technically sponsored by IEEE, EURASIP and MPEG-IF.The conference follows the very successful 3DTV-CON 2007, held in Kos Island, Greece, organized by Georgios Triantafyllidis and Levent Onural.

The proceedings will be archived by IEEE Xplore, following the practice of the previous conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED to 22 JANUARY 2008