Virtual Viewpoint Three-Dimensional Panorama

Virtual Viewpoint Three-dimensional Panorama

Conventional panoramic images are known to provide for an enhanced field of view in which the scene always has a fixed appearance. The idea presented in this paper focuses on the use of the concept of virtual viewpoint creation to generate different panoramic images of the same scene with three-dimensional component. Three-dimensional effect in a resultant panorama is realized by superimposing ...

Three-Dimensional Virtual Acoustic Displays

Three-dimensional interactive virtual endoscopy

Virtual endoscopy is a new development of diagnostic imaging, covering a wide range of potential clinical applications. This paper introduced a system framework for virtual endoscopy. Our research efforts concentrated on mesh smoothing, automated centerline extraction and view-dependent level-of-detail rendering techniques. First, the fairing surface was obtained by smoothing the normal vectors...

Viewpoint Selection for Complete Surface Coverage of Three Dimensional Objects

Many machine vision tasks, e.g. object recognition and object inspection, cannot be performed robustly from a single image. For certain tasks (e.g. 3D object recognition and automated inspection) the availability of multiple views of an object is a requirement. This paper presents a novel approach to selecting a minimised number of views that allow each object face to be adequately viewed accor...

Virtual 360 Panorama for Remote Inspection

The use of remotely operated robotic systems in security related applications is becoming increasingly popular. However, the direct teleoperation interfaces commonly used today put a large amount of cognitive burden on the operators, thus seriously reducing the efficiency and reliability of these systems. In the context of an adjustable autonomy control architecture meant to relieve operators f...