Visual attention based information culling for distributed virtual environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn Part F129026, Issue , 2003, Pages 213-222

  Beeharee, Ashweeni Kumar ^a   West, Adrian J ^b   Hubbold, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Transitive Technologies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; DESIGN ARCHITECTURE; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77953200506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008653.1008691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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