Real-time interactive virtual tour on the World Wide Web (WWW)

Sanghyuk Yoon; Hai-jung Chen; Tom Hsu; Ilmi Yoon

doi:10.1117/12.526890

15 December 2003 Real-time interactive virtual tour on the World Wide Web (WWW)

Sanghyuk Yoon, Hai-jung Chen, Tom Hsu, Ilmi Yoon

Proceedings Volume 5304, Internet Imaging V; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526890
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Web-based Virtual Tour has become a desirable and demanded application, yet challenging due to the nature of web application's running environment such as limited bandwidth and no guarantee of high computation power on the client side. Image-based rendering approach has attractive advantages over traditional 3D rendering approach in such Web Applications. Traditional approach, such as VRML, requires labor-intensive 3D modeling process, high bandwidth and computation power especially for photo-realistic virtual scenes. QuickTime VR and IPIX as examples of image-based approach, use panoramic photos and the virtual scenes that can be generated from photos directly skipping the modeling process. But, these image-based approaches may require special cameras or effort to take panoramic views and provide only one fixed-point look-around and zooming in-out rather than 'walk around', that is a very important feature to provide immersive experience to virtual tourists. The Web-based Virtual Tour using Tour into the Picture employs pseudo 3D geometry with image-based rendering approach to provide viewers with immersive experience of walking around the virtual space with several snap shots of conventional photos.

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Sanghyuk Yoon, Hai-jung Chen, Tom Hsu, and Ilmi Yoon "Real-time interactive virtual tour on the World Wide Web (WWW)", Proc. SPIE 5304, Internet Imaging V, (15 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526890

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