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Virtualized Reality^TM
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Head: Takeo Kanade
Contact: Sundar Vedula

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Please see the official page.

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Vision for Virtual Environments

A Virtualized Reality application, CBS's Eye Vision, was demonstrated during SuperBowl XXXV.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a football game from the 50-yard line? No, not in seats on the side of the field, but actually ON the field? Or how about watching a basketball game from center court, running with the players? Although the idea is great, it usually isn't wise to put your chair in the middle of the action like that! Since 1993, we have been developing a technology that would allow you to see these and even wilder views of the world!

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Shigeyuki Baba - Visiting Scholar
• [Home] Kong Man Cheung - Postdoctoral Fellow
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• Makoto Kimura - Visiting Scholar
• Arvind Lakshmikumar - Visiting Researcher
• [Home] Iain Matthews - Senior Systems Scientist <iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)>
• [Home] Peter Rander - Senior Commercialization Specialist <rander@cs.cmu.edu>
• Hideo Saito - Visiting Scientist
• Sundar Vedula - PhD Student, RI

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Virtualized Reality: Perspectives on 4D Digitization of Dynamic Events
  T. Kanade and P.J. Narayanan
  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May, 2007, pp. 32 - 40. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [466 KB] copyrighted

• Historical Perspectives on 4D Virtualized Reality
  T. Kanade and P.J. Narayanan
  Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, June, 2006, pp. 165 - 176. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [668 KB] copyrighted

• Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation From Multicamera Videos Captured in the 3-D Room
  H. Saito, S. Baba, and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 5, No. 3, September, 2003, pp. 303 - 316.
  Download: pdf [2179 KB] copyrighted

• Stereo Matching between Three Images by Iterative Refinement in PVS
  M. Kimura, H. Saito, and T. Kanade
  The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E86-D, No. 1, January, 2003, pp. 89 - 100.
  Download: pdf [1502 KB] copyrighted

• An active camera system for acquiring multi-view video
  R. Collins, O. Amidi, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '02), September, 2002, pp. 517 - 520.
  Download: pdf [352 KB] copyrighted

• Visual Hull Construction, Alignment and Refinement Across Time
  K.M. Cheung
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1924 KB], ps.gz [4666 KB] copyrighted

• Shape and Motion Carving in 6D
  S. Vedula, S. Baker, S. Seitz, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '00), June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [484 KB], ps.gz [517 KB] copyrighted

• Multi-view Spatial and Temporal Interpolation for Dynamic Event Visualization
  S. Vedula
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [975 KB], ps.gz [1768 KB] copyrighted

• Virtual worlds using computer vision
  P.J. Narayanan and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE and ATR Workshop on Computer Vision for Virtual Reality Based Human Communications, January, 1998, pp. 2 - 13. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [933 KB] copyrighted

• Immersion into Visual Media: New Applications of Image Understanding
  T. Kanade
  IEEE Expert, Vol. 11, No. 1, February, 1996, pp. 73-80. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1070 KB] copyrighted