An immersive 3D video-conferencing system using shared virtual team user environments

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 105-112

  Kauff, Peter ^a   Schreer, Oliver ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D video processing; Arbitrarily shaped video objects; Disparity estimation; Image based rendering; MPEG 4 video coding; Next generation video conference; Presence research; Shared virtual table environment; Tele cubicles; Tele immersion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN-CENTRED COMMUNICATIONS;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 0036986401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/571878.571895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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