A Depth Template based 2D-to-3D Video Conversion and
Coding system (DTVCC) is proposed by this paper. In
DTVCC, triangle meshes are exploited to describe depth
template for scenes in 2D video, an interactive system is
designed to generate reliable depth template, depth map can
be automatically reconstructed based on the depth template
and 2D video frame pixels information, and the generated
3D video is compressed just by coding the 2D video plus
depth template. Experiment results show that not only high
quality 3D video is generated, but also the bit rate of coding
the converted 3D video is saved by 12%~38% with our
proposed system of DTVCC