A methodology for remote virtual interaction in teleimmersive environments

MMSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMM Conference on Multimedia Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 281-291

  Vasudevan, Ram ^a   Lobaton, Edgar ^a   Kurillo, Gregorij ^a   Bajcsy, Ruzena ^a   Bernardin, Tony ^b   Hamann, Bernd ^b   Nahrstedt, Klara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

3D teleimmersion; 3D video; Human computer interaction; Real time; Stereo reconstruction; Virtual reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

3D TELE-IMMERSION; 3D VIDEO; REAL TIME; REAL TIME STEREO; STEREO RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951269465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730836.1730871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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