Low-cost telepresence for collaborative virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 156-166

  Kim, Myoung Hee ^a   Gross, Markus ^b  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Remote systems; segmentation; stereo; teleconferencing; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447135034     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.17     Document Type: Article

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