From smartphone to virtual window

Emile Zhang; Hideo Saito; Francois De Sorbier

doi:10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618375

From smartphone to virtual window

Emile Zhang, Hideo Saito, Francois De Sorbier

Department of Information and Computer Science

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype of virtual transparency on a hand-held device. The prototype is restricted to such device with no additional material to show that a semblance of virtual transparency can be achieved with today's smartphones and has been designed be as simple as possible to use. The user's head is tracked using the front camera and the eyes co-ordinates are estimated from the head position. The area to be displayed is then computed from the these coordinates, an estimation of the distance head-phone and phone-scene, as well as the phone and lens specifications. It provides a realistic illusion of virtual transparency, not an geometrically accurate render of the scene, and still works in non-optimal situations (non-flat scene).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618375
Publication status	Published - 2013 Nov 29
Event	2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 2013 Jul 15 → 2013 Jul 19

Publication series

Name	Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013

Other

Other	2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013
Country	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	13/7/15 → 13/7/19

Keywords

Augmented Reality
User Interfaces
User-perspective Rendering
Virtual Transparency

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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From smartphone to virtual window. / Zhang, Emile; Saito, Hideo; De Sorbier, Francois.

Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013. 2013. 6618375 (Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013).

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Zhang, E, Saito, H & De Sorbier, F 2013, From smartphone to virtual window. in Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013., 6618375, Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013, San Jose, CA, United States, 13/7/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618375

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