Real-time stereo-vision system for 3D teleimmersive collaboration

Ram Vasudevan, Zhong Zhou, Gregorij Kurillo, Edgar Lobaton, Ruzena Bajcsy, Klara Nahrstedt

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Abstract

Though the variety of desktop real time stereo vision systems has grown considerably in the past several years, few make any verifiable claims about the accuracy of the algorithms used to construct 3D data or describe how the data generated by such systems, which is large in size, can be effectively distributed. In this paper, we describe a system that creates an accurate (on the order of a centimeter), 3D reconstruction of an environment in real time (under 30 ms) that also allows for remote interaction between users. This paper addresses how to reconstruct, compress, and visualize the 3D environment. In contrast to most commercial desktop real time stereo vision systems our algorithm produces 3D meshes instead of dense point clouds, which we show allows for better quality visualizations. The chosen representation of the data also allows for high compression ratios for transfer to remote sites. We demonstrate the accuracy and speed of our results on a variety of benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010
Pages1208-1213
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Jul 19 2010Jul 23 2010

Publication series

Name2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010

Other

Other2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period7/19/107/23/10

Keywords

  • 3D video
  • Compression
  • Real time
  • Teleimmersion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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