TY - GEN
T1 - The scan&track virtual environment
AU - Semwal, Sudhanshu Kumar
AU - Ohya, Jun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - We are developing the Scan & Track virtual environment (VE) using multiple cameras. The Scan and Track VE is based upon a new method for 3D position estimation called the active-space indexing method. In addition, we have also developed the geometric-imprints algorithm for signicant points extraction from multiple camera-images. Together, the geometric-imprints algorithm and the active-space indexing method, pro-vide a promising and elegant solution to several inherent challenges facing camera-based virtual environments. Some of these are: (a) correspon-dence problem across multiple camera images, (b) discriminating multiple participants in virtual environments, (c) avatars (synthetic actors) representing participants, (d) occlusion. We also address a fundamen-tal issue: can virtual environments be powerful enough to understand human-participants.
AB - We are developing the Scan & Track virtual environment (VE) using multiple cameras. The Scan and Track VE is based upon a new method for 3D position estimation called the active-space indexing method. In addition, we have also developed the geometric-imprints algorithm for signicant points extraction from multiple camera-images. Together, the geometric-imprints algorithm and the active-space indexing method, pro-vide a promising and elegant solution to several inherent challenges facing camera-based virtual environments. Some of these are: (a) correspon-dence problem across multiple camera images, (b) discriminating multiple participants in virtual environments, (c) avatars (synthetic actors) representing participants, (d) occlusion. We also address a fundamen-tal issue: can virtual environments be powerful enough to understand human-participants.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-68686-x_6
DO - 10.1007/3-540-68686-x_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0006818625
SN - 3540647805
SN - 9783540647805
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 63
EP - 80
BT - Virtual Worlds - 1st International Conference, VW 1998, Proceedings
A2 - Heudin, Jean-Claude
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Conference on Virtual Worlds, VW 1998
Y2 - 1 July 1998 through 3 July 1998
ER -