High-Resolution Interactive Panoramas with MPEG-4

We present a system for the interactive navigation through high-resolution cylindrical panoramas. The system is based on MPEG-4 and describes the virtual world by the scene description language BIFS. This allows the easy integration of dynamic video objects, 3-D computer models, interactive scene elements, or spatial audio in order to create realistic environments. The scene data can be stored locally or streamed from a server dependent on the navigation information of the client. For the acquisition of panoramic views from real scenes, many preprocessing steps are necessary. Methods for the removal of objects or the adaptation of the dynamic range of the images are presented in this paper.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: VMV
• Authors: Peter Eisert, Yong Guo, Anke Riechers, Jürgen Rurainsky
• Keywords: Interactive Navigation, Interactive Scene Elements, Scene Description Language, VMV 2004, VMV 2008