An Immersive Telepresence System with a Locomotion Interface Using High-Resolution Omnidirectional Movies

This paper describes a novel telepresence system which enables users to walk through a photorealistic virtualized environment by actual walking. To realize such a system, a wide-angle high-resolution movie is projected on an immersive multi-screen display to present users the virtualized environments and a treadmill is controlled according to detected user's locomotion. In this study, we use an omnidirectional multi-camera system to acquire images of a real outdoor scene. The proposed system provides users with rich sense of walking in a remote site.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Sei Ikeda, Tomokazu Sato, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya
• Keywords: Actual Walking, Computer Vision, ICPR 2004, Immersive Multi-screen Display, Real Outdoor Scene