Web-based historical city walks: advances and bottlenecks
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Special issue: Virtual heritage
Polygon-based texture mapping for cyber city 3D building models
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This work establishes a cyber space of an urban area forvisiting on the Internet. By registering entire scenes alongevery street and scenes at many locations, people canvisually travel from street to street, and reach theirdestinations in cyber city. The issues we discuss here arehow to map a large scale area to image domain in a smallamount of data, how to cover visual information as completeas possible in the mapping, and how to effectively displaythe captured scenes for various activities in cyber city.Route Panoramas captured along streets and PanoramicViews captured at widely open sites are associated to citymaps to provide a navigation function. This paper focuseson the properties of our extended images - routepanorama, the archiving process applied to an urban area,and a real environment we developed to transmit anddisplay scenes on the WWW and portable devices. Thecreated cyber spaces of real cities have broad applicationssuch as city tour, real estate, E-commerce, heritagepreservation, urban planning and construction.