Nyland, Lars and Lastra, Anselmo and McAllister, David K. and Popescu, Voicu and McCue, Chris
@InProceedings{nyland-videometrics01,
Author="Nyland, Lars and Lastra, Anselmo and McAllister, David K. and Popescu, Voicu and McCue, Chris",
Title="Capturing,Processing and Rendering Real-World Scenes",
BookTitle="Videometrics and Optical Methods for 3D Shape Measurement, Electronic Imaging 2001, Photonics West",
Address="San Jose, CA",
Publisher="SPIE",
Volume=4309,
Year=2001
}
Abstract:
While photographs vividly capture a scene from a single viewpoint, it
is our goal to capture a scene in such a way that a viewer can freely
move to any viewpoint, just as he or she would in an actual scene.
We have built a prototype system to quickly digitize a scene using a laser
rangefinder and a high-resolution digital camera that accurately captures
a panorama of high-resolution range and color information. With real-world
scenes, we have provided data to fuel research in many areas, including
representation, registration, data fusion, polygonization, rendering,
simplification, and reillumination. The real-world scene data can be
used for many purposes, including immersive environments, immersive
training, re-engineering and engineering verification, renovation,
crime-scene and accident capture and reconstruction, archaeology and
historic preservation, sports and entertainment, surveillance, remote
tourism and remote sales. We will describe our acquisition system, the
necessary processing to merge data from the multiple input devices and
positions. We will also describe (and show)high quality rendering using
the data we have collected. Issues about specific rendering accelerators
and algorithms will also be presented. We will conclude by describing
future uses and methods of collection for real-world scene data.