Virtual world explorations by using topological and semantic knowledge

Visual Computer

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 173-185

  Sokolov, Dmitry ^a   Plemenos, Dimitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic virtual camera; Scene understanding; Semantic distance; Virtual camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTS; SEMANTIC WEB;

AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL CAMERA; SCENE UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTIC DISTANCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 39049128087     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-007-0182-z     Document Type: Article

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