TY - GEN
T1 - From smartphone to virtual window
AU - Zhang, Emile
AU - Saito, Hideo
AU - De Sorbier, Francois
PY - 2013/11/29
Y1 - 2013/11/29
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Augmented Reality
KW - User Interfaces
KW - User-perspective Rendering
KW - Virtual Transparency
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618375
DO - 10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618375
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888221602
SN - 9781479916047
T3 - Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013
BT - Electronic Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2013
Y2 - 15 July 2013 through 19 July 2013
ER -