Saliency-Guided Stereo Camera Control for Comfortable VR Explorations

Saliency-Guided Complexity Control for HEVC Decoding

The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard significantly improves coding efficiency over its previous video coding standards. The expense of such improvement is enormous computational complexity, from both encoding and decoding sides. Since computational capability and power capacity are diverse across portable devices, it is necessary to reduce decoding complexity to a target with...

VR HMD Compatible Spherical Stereo Panorama by Single Camera with Regular Lens

A spherical stereo panorama is a pair of panoramic images with horizontal parallax, that both have a complete spherical projection covering 360◦ in azimuth and 180◦ in elevation. We present an analyze a new method to generate spherical stereo panorama by using one camera with regular lens, which are compatible for VR HMD display.

Saliency-Guided Lighting

The comprehensibility of large and complex 3D models can be greatly enhanced by guiding viewer’s attention to important regions. Lighting is crucial to our perception of shape. Careful use of lighting has been widely used in art, scientific illustration, and computer graphics to guide visual attention. In this paper, we explore how the saliency of 3D objects can be used to guide lighting to emp...

Search Guided Saliency

We propose a new type of saliency as inspired by findings from visual search studies the searching difficulty is correlated with the target-distractor contrast, the distractor homogeneity, as well as the target uniqueness. By putting an image pixel as the target and the surrounding pixels as distractors, a search guided saliency model is designed in accordance with these findings. In particular...

Stereo Without Camera Models