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Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space

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Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Digital Cities 2001)

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This paper proposes a town digitizing for building an image-based cyber space. The cyber space consists of omnidirectional cameras and a large number of omnidirectional images connecting them. We discuss on details of the town digitizing technique and possibilities of the cyber space in this paper. The technique is divided into three steps: omnidirectional image acquisition, parameter estimation among omnidirectional images, and smooth interpolation among them. The omnidirectional images are taken using the powerwheel or the tripod with the omnidirectional camera. Then the parameters among omnidirectional images are estimated by Hough transform and template matching. Based on the estimated parameters, the system smoothly interpolates the omnidirectional images and generates continuous virtual views. That is, the system allows users to move in the virtual space like a previous 3-D graphics system. This paper also shows the validity of the town digitizing by building a model of Kyoto city.

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  1. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan

    Satoshi Koizumi

  2. Wakayama University, Sakaedani 930, Wakayama, 640-8510, Japan

    Guiming Dai & Hiroshi Ishiguro

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Koizumi, S., Dai, G., Ishiguro, H. (2002). Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_28

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