TY - GEN
T1 - CuteChat
T2 - 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011, MM'11
AU - Lu, Jiangbo
AU - Nguyen, Viet Anh
AU - Niu, Zeping
AU - Singh, Bhavdeep
AU - Luo, Zhiping
AU - Do, Minh N
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents a lightweight tele-immersive video chat system named CuteChat. Based on our recently developed video object cutout technology, the CuteChat system is designed and optimized to provide a radically new video chat experience by merging each participant in the same shared space, allowing them to interact more naturally in an integrated manner. With the goal to make the system easily accessible by massive consumers, we address the challenges in the whole pipeline of video processing, coding, communication, composition, and playback. Extensive experiments have shown that the proposed CuteChat system runs reliably and comfortably in real time on one's laptop or desktop PC, and it needs only a commodity webcam for video acquisition and just public Internet for tele-immersive video conferencing. With such a really minimal deployment requirement, we present a variety of interesting applications and user experiences created by the CuteChat system.
AB - This paper presents a lightweight tele-immersive video chat system named CuteChat. Based on our recently developed video object cutout technology, the CuteChat system is designed and optimized to provide a radically new video chat experience by merging each participant in the same shared space, allowing them to interact more naturally in an integrated manner. With the goal to make the system easily accessible by massive consumers, we address the challenges in the whole pipeline of video processing, coding, communication, composition, and playback. Extensive experiments have shown that the proposed CuteChat system runs reliably and comfortably in real time on one's laptop or desktop PC, and it needs only a commodity webcam for video acquisition and just public Internet for tele-immersive video conferencing. With such a really minimal deployment requirement, we present a variety of interesting applications and user experiences created by the CuteChat system.
KW - Tele-immersive system
KW - Video chat
KW - Video object cutout
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U2 - 10.1145/2072298.2072001
DO - 10.1145/2072298.2072001
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84455207762
SN - 9781450306164
T3 - MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops
SP - 1309
EP - 1312
BT - MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 1 December 2011
ER -