TY - GEN
T1 - Ultra-Sparse 360-Degree Camera View Synthesis for Immersive Virtual Tourism
AU - Zhou, Qian
AU - Nahrstedt, Klara
N1 - This research was funded by the NSF CNS 1900875, by the Postdoctoral Fellowship program at CS UIUC and by the Grainger College of Engineering funding. The presented views in the article are of the authors and do not represent the views of the funding organizations.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 360-degree video based virtual tours are becoming more and more popular due to travel costs and restrictions. Existing solutions leverage teleport, 3D modeling or image morphing, but none of them offers satisfactory immersion and scalability. In this paper, we propose a morphing based ultra-sparse 360-degree camera virtual tourism solution. It uses a novel bus tour mode to improve immersion; besides, it uses a series of strategies to improve feature matching such that morphing works well for ultra-sparse (15 m apart) cameras and the system can be deployed on a large scale. The experimental results show that our work results in remarkably better feature matching and synthesized views.
AB - 360-degree video based virtual tours are becoming more and more popular due to travel costs and restrictions. Existing solutions leverage teleport, 3D modeling or image morphing, but none of them offers satisfactory immersion and scalability. In this paper, we propose a morphing based ultra-sparse 360-degree camera virtual tourism solution. It uses a novel bus tour mode to improve immersion; besides, it uses a series of strategies to improve feature matching such that morphing works well for ultra-sparse (15 m apart) cameras and the system can be deployed on a large scale. The experimental results show that our work results in remarkably better feature matching and synthesized views.
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U2 - 10.1109/MIPR54900.2022.00057
DO - 10.1109/MIPR54900.2022.00057
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139052787
T3 - Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, MIPR 2022
SP - 281
EP - 286
BT - Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, MIPR 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, MIPR 2022
Y2 - 2 August 2022 through 4 August 2022
ER -