Digital Collections of Real World Objects

Virtual Objects Real World

Computing at the intersection of two realms. T HE TERM VIRTUAL REALITY USUALLY REFERS TO SYSTEMS THAT generate a totally synthetic environment, in which the end user is able to specify all the characteristics of the new environment. A head-mounted display and an orientation and position tracker enable the user to roam around the new virtual world, look up and down, and walk into rooms that don'...

Virtualizing Real-World Objects

High quality, virtual 3D models are quickly emerging as a new multimedia data type with applications in such diverse areas as e-commerce, online encyclopaedias, or virtual museums, to name just a few. This paper presents new algorithms and techniques for the acquisition and real-time interaction with complex textured 3D objects and shows how these results can be seamlessly integrated with previ...

Rendering Real-world Objects Using View Interpolation Rendering Real-world Objects Using View

Reference 1] Tomm a s Werner, Roger David Hersch, and VV aclav Hlavv a c. Rendering real-world objects using view interpolation. Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to rendering arbitrary views of real-world 3-D objects of complex shapes. We propose to represent an object by a sparse set of corresponding 2-D views, and to construct any other view as a combination of these reference vie...

Photorealistic 3D Models of Real-World Objects

TRAX - Real-World Tracking of Moving Objects

A range of mobile services rely on knowing the current positions of populations of so-called moving objects. In the ideal setting, the positions of all objects are known always and exactly. While this is not possible in practice, it is possible to know each object’s position with a certain guaranteed accuracy. This paper presents the TRAX tracking system that supports several techniques capable...