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360-degree video based virtual tours are becoming more and more popular due to travel costs and restrictions. Existing solutions leverage teleport, 3D modeling or image morphing, but none of them offers satisfactory immersion and scalability. In this paper, we propose a morphing based ultra-sparse 360-degree camera virtual tourism solution. It uses a novel bus tour mode to improve immersion; besides, it uses a series of strategies to improve feature matching such that morphing works well for ultra-sparse (15 m apart) cameras and the system can be deployed on a large scale. The experimental results show that our work results in remarkably better feature matching and synthesized views.
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360ViewPET: View Based Pose EsTimation for Ultra-Sparse 360-Degree Cameras
Immersive virtual tours based on 360-degree cameras, showing famous outdoor scenery, are becoming more and more desirable due to travel costs, pandemics and other constraints. To feel immersive, a user must receive the view accurately corresponding to her position and orientation in the virtual space when she moves inside, and this requires cameras’ orientations to be known. Outdoor tour contexts have numerous, ultra-sparse cameras deployed across a wide area, making camera pose estimation challenging. As a result, pose estimation techniques like SLAM, which require mobile or dense cameras, are not applicable. In this paper we present a novel strategy called 360ViewPET, which automatically estimates the relative poses of two stationary, ultra-sparse (15 meters apart) 360-degree cameras using one equirectangular image taken by each camera. Our experiments show that it achieves accurate pose estimation, with a mean error as low as 0.9 degree
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- Award ID(s):
- 1900875
- PAR ID:
- 10346736
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- Journal Name:
- IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
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- 1 to 8
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISM52913.2021.00008
