Abstract:
Traditional panorama visualization techniques give only the single eye's depth cues to the audience for the 3D world navigation. We introduce a new panorama visualization approach so that the depth cues for both eyes are provided in the panoramic image. The full color anaglyphs stereoscopic technique is adopted to produce and visualize the stereo panorama, which exploits human visual capability so the binocular depth and synthesized colors can be perceived and understood. Because both panoramic and anaglyphic image acquisition setups are incompatible intrinsically, we measure the errors of anaglyphic panorama image and deliver an error controlling formula that allows a better camera position to be determined at setup time. A real-time interactive player is developed for navigation in the stereo panoramic virtual world. In addition to the standard functions provided in the player, three new features are equipped to the player (i.e. a new driving method, manipulable objects embedded in the stereo panorama and a directional indicator).
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