Estimation of Travel Distance from Visual Motion in Virtual Environments

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-

  Frenz, Harald ^a   Bührmann, Thomas ^a   Lappe, Markus ^b   Kolesnik, Marina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

depth; distance estimation; Experimentation; Human factors; Optic flow; stereo; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001592212     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1227134.1227137     Document Type: Article

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