Design your room: adding virtual objects to a real indoor scenario

  • Authors:
  • Rui Nóbrega;Nuno Correia

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents an interior design application that uses photos from real indoor spaces and rooms as input. The user is encouraged to take a picture of a certain place and virtually reshape it with furniture, different colors, textures and materials. The system analyses the still image of the physical space through image processing and computer vision algorithms to detect the world orientation relative to the camera. Knowing this, it is possible to create a natural interface where objects are laid on the floor and pushed around as in real life.