NDLI: VirtualizeMe: Real-time avatar creation for Tele-Immersion environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Knoblauch, D. Font, P.M. Kuester, F.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull (Font, P.M.) \|\| University of California, San Diego (Knoblauch, D.; Kuester, F.)
Abstract	VirtualizeMe introduces a new design for a fully immersive Tele-Immersion system for remote collaboration and virtual world interaction. This system introduces a new avatar creation approach full-filling four main attributes: high resolution, scalability, flexibility and affordability. This is achieved by a total separation of reconstruction and rendering and exploiting the capabilities of modern graphic cards. The high resolution is achieved by using as much of the input information as possible through lossless compression of the input data and introducing a focused volumetric visual hull reconstruction. The resulting avatar allows eye-to-eye collaboration for remote users. The interaction with the virtual world is facilitated by the volumetric avatar model and allows a fully immersive system. This paper shows a proof of concept based on publicly available pre-recorded data to allow easier comparison.
Starting Page	279
Ending Page	280
File Size	7513187
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424462377
ISSN	10878270
e-ISBN	9781424462384
e-ISBN	9781424462360
DOI	10.1109/VR.2010.5444767
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-03-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Avatars Image reconstruction Spatial resolution Focusing Surface reconstruction Rendering (computer graphics) Data mining Clouds Collaboration Scalability H.5.1 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: Multimedia Information Systems -Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities I.4.8 [IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION]: Scene Analysis-Shape I.3.7 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Virtual Reality
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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