IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special issue on interpretation of 3-D scenes—part II
Panoramic representation for route recognition by a mobile robot
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on machine vision research at Osaka University
QuickTime VR: an image-based approach to virtual environment navigation
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Multiperspective panoramas for cel animation
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Generating dynamic projection images for scene representation and understanding
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Mosaicing on Adaptive Manifolds
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE MultiMedia
A vehicle-borne urban 3-D acquisition system using single-row laser range scanners
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Scanning Scene Tunnel for City Traversing
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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This paper proposes a visual representation named scene tunnel to capture and visualize urban scenes for Internet based virtual city traversing. We scan cityscapes by using multiple cameras on a vehicle that moves along a street, and generate a real scene archive more complete than a route panorama. The scene tunnel can cover high architectures and various object aspects, and its data size is much less than video. It is suitable for image transmission and rendering over the Internet. The scene tunnel has a uniformed resolution along the camera path and can provide continuous views for visual navigation in a virtual or real city. This paper explores the image acquisition methods from slit calibration, view scanning, to image integration. A plane of scanning is determined for flexible camera setting and image integration. The paper further addresses the city visualization on the Internet that includes view transformation, data streaming, and interactive functions. The high-resolution scenes are mapped onto a wide window dynamically. The compact and continuous scene tunnel facilitates the data streaming and allows virtual traversing to be extended to a large area.