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Automatic registration of a virtual experience space with Kinect

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The popularization of virtual experience spaces involves several difficulties, and this paper focuses on part of them—additional equipment removal and cumbersome initialization process lightening. In this paper, a new automated initialization method to replace the traditional initialization process is proposed using the Kinect sensor, an affordable three-dimensional video capture device. Although the accuracy of this method is lower than that of other methods owing to the limitations of the Kinect sensor, it shows comparable performance under certain assumptions and offers users the opportunity to experience virtual space in a simple, low-cost manner.

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This work was supported by the IT R&D program of MKE & KEIT [10041610, The development of the recognition technology for user identity, behavior and location that has a performance approaching recognition rates of 99 % on 30 people by using perception sensor network in the real environment]. This research was supported by the KUSTAR-KAIST Institute, Korea, under the R&D program supervised by the KAIST.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Jaemin Soh, ByungOk Han, Yeongjae Choi, Youngmin Park & Hyun S. Yang

  2. Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Yong-Ho Seo

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Soh, J., Han, B., Choi, Y. et al. Automatic registration of a virtual experience space with Kinect. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 211–226 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1757-5

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