This paper introduces a new process, environment matting, which captures not just a foreground object and its traditional opacity matte from a real-world scene, but also a descrip...
Douglas E. Zongker, Dawn M. Werner, Brian Curless,...
Networked virtual environments like Second Life enable distant people to meet for leisure as well as work. But users are represented through avatars controlled by keyboards and mo...
Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Jo...
A growing number of applications depend on accurate and fast 3D scene analysis. Examples are model and lightfield acquisition, collision prevention, mixed reality, and gesture re...
Andreas Kolb, Erhardt Barth, Reinhard Koch, Rasmus...
Projection systems can be used to implement augmented reality, as well as to create both displays and interfaces on ordinary surfaces. Ordinary surfaces have varying reflectance, ...
Kensaku Fujii, Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Naya...
Extracting meaningful 3D human motion information from video sequences is of interest for applications like intelligent humancomputer interfaces, biometrics, video browsing and ind...