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Development of an Invisible Human Experience System Using Diminished Reality

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In this study, we have been developing a diminished reality system that allows users to experience becoming invisible human in order to reduce self-awareness and to improve their self-esteem. The system employs a camera to capture the user’s view and replaces his/her body images with background images in real time. These processed images are shown with a head mounted display to realize the immersive experience of becoming invisible human. The image inpainting is performed by a deep learning network. We also created a training and validation datasets and compared three networks. These networks are designed for image inpainting in this study. Moreover, we have made a hypothetical model of how psychological states and self-awareness will change when experiencing the developed system. In the future work, we are planning to conduct an experiment and confirm whether use of the system improves self-esteem. Also, we will investigate the process of changing the psychological state based on the hypothetical model by questionnaire surveys.

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Sasaki, M., Ishii, H., Ueda, K., Shimoda, H. (2022). Development of an Invisible Human Experience System Using Diminished Reality. In: Chen, J.Y.C., Fragomeni, G. (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Design and Development. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13317. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05939-1_33

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