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An authoring system is proposed to construct panoramic images of real-world scenes from video clips automatically. Instead of using special hardware such as fish-eye lens, our method is less hardware-intensive and more flexible to capture real-world scenes without loss of efficiency. Unlike current panoramic stitching methods, where users need to select a set of images before constructing a panoramic image, our system will choose essential frames and stitch them together automatically in 16 seconds on a Pentium-II PC. In addition to popular image-based VR data formats, we also output the panoramic images in VRML97 format.
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Chen, DY., Ho, M.CC., Ouhyoung, M. (1998). VideoVR: A Real-Time System for Automatically Constructing Panoramic Images from Video Clips. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments. CAPTECH 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49384-0_11
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