Rapid Creation of Large-scale Photorealistic Virtual Environments

The rapid and efficient creation of virtual environments has become a crucial part of virtual reality applications. In particular, civil and defense applications often require and employ detailed models of operations areas for training, simulations of different scenarios, planning for natural or man-made events, monitoring, surveillance, games and films. A realistic representation of the large-scale environments is therefore imperative for the success of such applications since it increases the immersive experience of its users and helps reduce the difference between physical and virtual reality. However, the task of creating such large-scale virtual environments still remains a time-consuming and manual work. In this work we propose a novel method for the rapid reconstruction of photorealistic large-scale virtual environments. First, a novel parameterized geometric primitive is presented for the automatic building detection, identification and reconstruction of building structures...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: VR
• Authors: Charalambos Poullis, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann
• Keywords: Large-scale Virtual Environments, Virtual Environments, Virtual Reality, VR 2008