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ViWoSG: A distributed scene graph of ultramassive distributed virtual environments

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An ultra-massive distributed virtual environment generally consists of ultra-massive terrain data and a large quantity of objects and their attribute data, such as 2D/3D geometric models, audio/video, images, vectors, characteristics, etc. In this paper, we propose a novel method for constructing distributed scene graphs with high extensibility. Thismethod can support high concurrent interaction of clients and implement various tasks such as editing, querying, accessing and motion controlling. Some application experiments are performed to demonstrate its efficiency and soundness.

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  1. Key Lab of Machine Perception and Intelligent, MOE, Beijing, China

    GuoPing Wang, Sheng Li, ShaoRong Wang, Bin Lu & WenHang Li

  2. Department of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    GuoPing Wang, Sheng Li, ShaoRong Wang, Bin Lu & WenHang Li

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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB719403), the National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2006AA01Z334, 2007AA01Z318, 2009AA01Z324), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60573151, 60703062, 60833007), and the Marine 908-03-01-10 Project

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Wang, G., Li, S., Wang, S. et al. ViWoSG: A distributed scene graph of ultramassive distributed virtual environments. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 52, 457–469 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-009-0071-3

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