Telepresence by Real-Time View-Dependent Image Generation from Omnidirectional Video Streams

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 154-165

  Onoe, Yoshio ^a,b   Yamazawa, Kazumasa ^a   Takemura, Haruo ^a   Yokoya, Naokazu ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Honda Motor   (Japan)

Author keywords

HyperOmni Vision; Omnidirectional imaging; Telepresence; Virtual reality; Virtual tour; Vision based graphics; Visual surveillance; Visualized dynamic real world

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER VISION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE ACQUISITION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032135960     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1998.0705     Document Type: Article

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