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Abstract

A new visual medium, Virtualized Reality, immerses viewers in a virtual reconstruction of real-world events. The Virtualized Reality world model consists of real images and depth information computed from these images. Stereoscopic reconstructions provide a sense of complete immersion, and users can select their own viewpoints at view time, independent of the actual camera positions used to capture the event.

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Virtualized Reality^TM

Number of pages: 14

Text Reference

Takeo Kanade, Peter Rander, and P J. Narayanan, "Virtualized Reality: Constructing Virtual Worlds from Real Scenes," IEEE Multimedia, Immersive Telepresence, Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1997, pp. 34-47.

BibTeX Reference

@article{Kanade_1997_981,
   author = "Takeo Kanade and Peter Rander and P J Narayanan",
   title = "Virtualized Reality: Constructing Virtual Worlds from Real Scenes",
   journal = "IEEE Multimedia, Immersive Telepresence",
   pages = "34-47",
   month = "January",
   year = "1997",
   volume = "4",
   number = "1",
}

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